Why Collaborate?

Why Collaborate?

Two heads are better than one!

Lets be creative and learn together. The person sitting next to you might know what
you dont know.

Lets feel involved through collaboration!

Future Success

Collaboration skills are needed in the Workplace. Its important to build learning
communities that know how to work together.

Learning from the Teacher is a form of collaboration, but think of how much more you
could learn if you collaborate with each other more often.

At home you may collaborate with your brother or sister when doing house hold chores
to get them completed faster.

Its Important to COMMUNICATE!!!

Define your Group Discussion Rules

Create a group name with who youre sitting next to.

Youre already collaborating!

Create rules to follow during your group discussions and the consequences for
breaking them.

Should you be allowed to interrupt each other or should only one person talk at a
time? Should you write your answers before speaking?

Assign a group monitor to keep your group focused on the discussion!

Assign a leader, the leader is in charge of mediating who gets to talk next.

Assign other roles you think your group may need?

A questioner, someone who finds questions to ask the person who is speaking.

Things to consider and discuss before

collaboration.

Unequal participation among group members.

Online discussion participation

Entrance ticket or bell ringer encouraging bell discussion.

Consistently making collaboration a part of the class routine.

Collaboration grading Strategies in the

classroom

Individual and group grades on tests

Collaborative work as class participation

Keep track of who is collaborating

Team Research and presentation

Students will anonymously grade each other based on team effort.

Collaborative techniques

Think-Pair-Share

Reciprocal Teaching

Ex. During readings students will read their section and summarize teach to group
members.

Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving

Group Grid

Group writing assignments

Always emphasize process rather than product!

How to improve Group Collaboration?

Discussion evaluation form

Set time limits

Consider what groups will be formed.

Student formed groups

Ask critical thinking questions

Documents to reference

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/tc/pt/discussion/discussion.htm

http://www.usciences.edu/teaching/tips/spal.shtml#discussion

http://images.pearsonassessments.com/images/tmrs/Collaboration-Review.p
df

http://www.uwlax.edu/catl/studentlearning/presentations/collaborativelear
ningtechniqueshandout.pdf