Monika Khan's Learning Diary for Collaborative Teaching and Learning Course by Monika Khan https://padlet.com/insula/g52957mj7b4h I have been a teacher of English for 19 years. I teach in a small school near Rzeszów in the south - east of Poland. My students are aged 10 - 16. en-us 2017-10-03 16:33:28 UTC 2025-10-04 08:04:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Module 1 insula https://padlet.com/insula/g52957mj7b4h/wish/194718836 Low level of collaboration

I have noticed that the vast majority of activities which involve completing some grammar or lexical exercises don't lead to students' collaboration or even coordination especially when I give them separate handouts and ask to work on them together. They usually look at their own worksheet and do the tasks separately saying that they will compare their answers at the end. They don't feel responsible for their partner and they don't want to discuss possible answers or solve problems together. I try to avoid such tasks because they don't promote any genuine collaboration.

High level of collaboration
Students were asked to prepare a short acting scene based on a story written by themselves. I only told them the size of groups  and the first sentence of the story. They had to find their partners, assign the roles (who will be the narrator and the actors), come up with an original story, prepare the props, the costumes and the soundtrack, decide when they would rehearse (it was done outside the class). It involved a lot of negotiation and collaboration on their part but they loved the fact that they were given a lot of freedom and they could be creative with their use of English.]]> 2017-10-06 14:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/insula/g52957mj7b4h/wish/194718836 Module 1 insula https://padlet.com/insula/g52957mj7b4h/wish/194726636 Resources
University of Minho, Creative Classroom Lab Project (2013). CCL GUIDE: LEARNING STORY COLLABORATION - What is the collaboration learning model and how to use it?
 
  • Additional Resources
  • - Davidson, N., & Major, C. H. (2014). Boundary crossings: Cooperative learning, collaborative learning, and problem-based learning. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 25 (3&4), pp. 7-55.
  • - Prince, M., (2004). Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93 (3), pp. 223–231.
  • - Jacques, D., & Salmon, G., Routledge (2007). Learning in groups: A handbook for face-to-face and online environments
]]> 2017-10-06 15:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/insula/g52957mj7b4h/wish/194726636 Module insula https://padlet.com/insula/g52957mj7b4h/wish/194892218 Low level of collaboration - rubrics

I think this kind of task is code 1 or code 2 (sometimes they decide to discuss their answers and sometimes they don't). They feel only responsible for completing their worksheet. There are cases when the answers differ as the students don't even feel like comparing their answers.

Low level of collaboration - rubrics

I think this task is code 5. They worked together to choose their team members, write a story and prepare an acting scene. They shared responsibility for the content of the story, keeping the deadlines, planning their meetings and in order to do that they had to make substantive decisions. As everyone was involved in the acting scene, their work was interdependent as they could not succeed without the others.]]> 2017-10-07 09:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/insula/g52957mj7b4h/wish/194892218