Ice breaker
Form groups using puzzle pieces
What is Puzzled Pieces?
What are the five benefits of collaborative learning?
1.Developing social skills
2. Learn from peers
3.Build trust
4. Engage in learning
5. Gain confidence
a common task or activity • small group learning • co-operative behaviour • interdependence • individual responsibility and accountability
What are characteristics of collaborative learning?
WHAT IS INTERACTING?
•When students are observing, doing, communicating, and reflecting, they are actively working with concepts and people.
What is students and teachers engagement?
Building collaborative relationships with students and teachers
Search for group members with rhyming words
what is Rhyming words?
What is Collaborating?
Two or more people working together in pursuit of a shared, collective, bounded goal
What are the 5 elements of Collaboration?
When people collaborate, they must have _______ goals.
Mutual goals
Search for group members by making animal noises
What is Animal Sounds?
• People need to go at different speeds. • Someone may try to take over the group. • Quiet people may not feel comfortable. • Sometimes people just don't get along. • People may not pull their weight. • It is not fair!
What are problems with collaborative learning?
Which characteristic means people collaborate by their own will?
Voluntary Nature
Participants that collaborate should have shared responsibility for: _____________
Decision Making
Partnering game where half the class gets words and the other half definitions
What is Words & Definitions?
How is collaboration used in schools?
Plan activities that give students the opportunity to work and collaborate together to learn and grow from each other.
Students learn how to work with various types of learners and develop their leadership skills
How are you today?
I am fine thank you and how are you?
Why is collaboration important in school?