The Basics
These facilitate how students interact with other students.
What are collaborative learning techniques?
This activity includes small group discussions where each group talks about the same topic and reports back to the whole group at the end.
What are clusters?
What is Jigsaw?
This is something you can do when a group is smaller than you had planned for.
What is participate with them? What is use a different technique like group discussion if appropriate?
This is the most common form of collaborative learning.
What is group discussion?
In this strategy members work with a partner to complete a task.
This technique requires that one person is picked to present material or review a topic and leads a discussion.
This is something you shouldn't do if someone is not participating.
What is force them to participate?
Engaging students in collaborative learning is an essential part of supplemental instruction, in what ways can we engage students.
What is making activities fun? What is being excited and energetic? What is making sure students feel comfortable in the room and with other students?
Students work on a task individually first then pair up to discuss their finding then explain what they found to the whole group.
What is think/pair/share?
This technique allows each student to offer and state their point of view on a topic.
These are some things you can do to create an environment where students feel comfortable collaborating.
What is play low volume, appropriate music as students enter the session? What is create an ice breaker? What is learn each others names?