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"Baking and pastry" developed with a colleague of mine,Prof. Cinzia Billa

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How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning?

The learning objectives for this module are:

1. Appreciate the benefits of teacher collaboration and how best to take advantage of them, as well as the challenges, and tips and tools for overcoming them

2. Understand the required skills needed by teachers for effective collaboration, as well as the conditions needed at school level for teacher collaboration to flourish

3. Understand how technology can facilitate teacher collaboration

4. Finalize the development of one or more lesson plans integrating collaborative learning and assessment, as well as elements of teacher collaboration, using the Learning Designer.

5. Peer review the collaborative learning lesson plans of two course participants

I quite often use technology to collaborate with my colleagues and my students.I use google, facebook, skype, e-mails . I'd rather process, analyze and share but very often it unfortunately happens to merely send and display materials.This course is helping me to widen my mind and share new ideas.Thanks a lot!

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How can you assess collaborative learning?

The learning objectives for this module are:

1. Understand the principles of assessing collaborative learning

2. Appreciate the various challenges teachers face in assessing collaborative learning and the tips, tools and solutions available

3. Understand the value of using rubrics and checklists for assessing collaborative learning, and how to construct them

4. Appreciate the importance of involving students in the definition of assessment tools used for collaborative learning

5. Start creating one or more lesson plans integrating collaborative learning and assessment using the Learning Designer

I usually use rubrics in my class which are available and adaptable to every situation not to assess the learning process but students' competences. I've worked with the department of English in my school to design rubrics in reliance to competences requested by the School Reform. I've never involved my students in building checklists to assess the work done. I think your guidelines and suggestions are very useful and can be implemented in my work.

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https://v.gd/KeUAKO
The link to my Learning Diary:
https://padlet.com/margheritabalistreri 8u0ad10kqqqs

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How can you design collaborative learning in the classroom?

The learning objectives for this module are:

1. Understand how to embed collaborative learning into lesson design

2. Appreciate the four dimensions of collaborative learning concerning group work, shared responsibility, making substantive decisions, and interdependent work

3. Understand how the 21st Century Learning Design Collaboration Rubric and Learning Scenarios can help you reflect and design collaborative learning activities

I agree with the opinion of first having  a shared language and collaboration among colleagues. Only then we can focus on learners as active participants.Technology definitely helps in students' motivation and nowadays it is an essential support in teaching

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What is collaborative learning?

The learning objectives for the module are:

1. Understand the full meaning of collaborative learning, and that it requires more than teachers simply putting students in groups

2. Appreciate the key benefits collaborative learning can bring to students and the specific skills it helps develop

3. Appreciate how collaborative learning can be facilitated by a flexible, interactive classroom, and also through project-based learning

4. Create a personal Learning Diary to log learning activities, reflections and resources from the course.

5. Reflect in your Learning Diary on two learning activities and whether they require a low or high level of collaboration from students

it is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of students working together to solve a problem

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sharing experiences about the own challenges and trading some ideas. A collaborative, interactive   approach can improve the way learning is applied and embedded

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My name is Margherita Balistreri. I'm a Secondary School English teacher and I teach in a Hotel and Catering school in Palermo, Sicily( Italy). I enjoy working with my students and collaborate with my colleagues,then I'm fond of cooking and I have  been teaching in eno-gastronomic classes since long time. Mine is a huge school with about 2,700 pupils! We have got  5 multimedia laboratories that are always insufficient to face the big number of users.That's me, my school and one of my class working in progress!

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My name is Margherita Balistreri. I'm a Secondary School English teacher and I teach in a Hotel and Catering school in Palermo, Sicily( Italy). I enjoy working with my students and collaborate with my colleagues,then I'm fond of cooking and I have  been teaching in eno-gastronomic classes since long time. Mine is a huge school with about 2,700 pupils! We have got  5 multimedia laboratories that are always insufficient to face the big number of users.That's me, my school and one of my class working in progress!