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Module 4- How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning?

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Module 4- How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning?

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What are the benefits of teacher collaboration?
-ideas
- peer-to-peer learning
- a safe environment
- feedback

What are the challenges of teacher collaboration?
- to find time to collaborate
- to align  timetables
- schools can’t build in time for teachers to collaborate within the school environment

Solutions:
-to use  technology and tools that are available, that you could collaborate outside of the school environment .
-collaborate to design a task together
-build community of practices among teachers and students.
-build collaboration activities during the school day
-collaboration across subjects and classes

How technology can facilitate teacher collaboration?

use  technology for
move beyond- sending and displaying
move towards -processing and analysing and sharing

the technology offers
-interactive environment
- real-time webinar
- ‘schoology’

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Module 3- How can you assess collaborative learning?

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Module 3- How can you assess collaborative learning?

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It is crucial that assessment doesn’t discourage learners, but rather strengthens their commitment to learning

Assessment for improving collaborative learning

- to make learners take responsibility for their own learning by helping to regulate their efforts
- identify their strengths and weaknesses,
- enable them to seek help in order to overcome difficulties
- encourage students to learn collaboratively and not encourage competition.

-  It should also contribute to a collective conscience promoting the belief that we learn better in groups because we can overcome our difficulties more easily when we help one another .

- students  come to understand better the subject  if they ’re teaching themselve  so  encourage students to benefit from this process

Feedback must be brief, clear and timely.
Feedback must be immediate, to have direct effect on the learning

Purpose of assessment :
- Formative assessment
- Self-assessment
- Summative assessment

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Module 2 - How can you design collaborative learning in the classroom?

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Module 2 - How can you design collaborative learning in the classroom?

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- Put the focus on learners as active participants with tools for inquiry-based pedagogies and collaborative work spaces.
- asking the students to collaborate, to communicate, and to use digital technology and to use other methods of working with each other in their classroom.
- teaching in collaboration cross-curricular
- They really are going to demand consistent planning in a school, as to how you develop these skills, what type of learning activities do you need to design.
- going to have maybe work interdisciplinary

Collaboration Questions :
- working together
- shared responsibility
- making substantive decisions
-interdependent  work

!!!!! It has to be remember a common product, a common design, a common response. !!!!!

-They have to collectively own the work, and being mutually responsible for its outcomes. T

- What does working together mean?
It means that they have an opportunity
to work in pairs or groups
to discuss an issue,
to solve a problem or to create a product.
So you have to be very clear what are they doing.

- the students can work :
with people outside the classroom.
students in other classes,
students from another school,
outside community members
experts in the field.

Students can work face to face or they can use technologies.

Collaborative rubrics
Learning scenarios 7 phases are
Dream-brainstorm, think freely and share ideas
Explore - collect information on a certain topic.
Map-structure their thoughts and ideas and seek to understand how they are related.
Make- develop or create a product or practice an activity.
Ask-to interview experts and stakeholders.
Remake-  replan or revisit their product, on the basis of the feedback or further information they received.
Show-publish and present the results of their work.

The learning objectives

1. Understanding how to embed collaborative learning into lesson design

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

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

4. Assessing the two collaborative learning activities you described in Module 1 using the 21 CLD Rubric, and reporting in your Learning Diary

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Module 1- What i collaborative learning? 

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Module 1- What i collaborative learning? 

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Collaborative Learning is a process through which learners at various performance levels work together in small groups toward a common goal. It is a learner-centred approach derived from social learning theories as well as the socio-constructivist perspective on learning. Collaborative learning is a relationship among learners that fosters positive interdependence, individual accountability, and interpersonal skills. For collaborative learning to be effective, teaching must be viewed as a process of developing students’ ability to learn. The teacher’s role is not to transmit information, but to serve as a facilitator for learning. This involves creating and managing meaningful learning experiences and stimulating learners’ thinking through real-world problems. The task must be clearly defined and be guided by specific objectives. Sometimes cooperative and collaborative learning are used interchangeably but cooperative work usually involves dividing work among the team members, whilst collaborative work means all team members tackle the problems together in a coordinated effort. According to research reviews, collaborative learning enhances: • Academic achievement • Student attitudes (e.g. openness to diversity) • Student engagement • Student retention (Prince, P. 2004; Davidson & Howell Major 2014) Moreover, collaborative learning contributes to the development of specific skills, including: • Leadership competences • Self-evaluation • Listening skills • Presentation skills • Skills of persuasion & negotiation • Team working skills (Jacques & Salmon, 2007)

Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for this module are:

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

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

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

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

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