Collaborative Learning

1. Collaborative Learning CHARLYN E. CAMPOSANO Naagtan ES

2. Session Objectives: • Identify the features of collaborative learning • Design learning activities using collaborative learning • Gives importance to the positive impact of CL in teaching-learning process

3. Group Activity Group 1 List down 5 learning activities that can be done by group? Group 2 List 5 words that are associated with collaborative learning? Group 3 Draw an illustration that depicts collaborative learning?

5. Collaborative learning is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of students working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product. According to Gerlach, "Collaborative learning is based on the idea that learning is a naturally social act in which the participants talk among themselves (Gerlach, 1994). It is through the talk that learning occurs."

6. Why Collaborate?

7. Key benefits: • Promotes interdependence • Encourages learners` responsibility for learning • Increases individual accountability as part of group • Reinforces learning for individuals through peer teaching • Develops communication skills, decision making and leadership skills • Increases group cohesion • Gives opportunity for teachers to observe and assess learning during the group activity

8. Approaches to Collaborative Learning (Smith and MacGregor,1992) • Learning is an active process • Learning requires a challenge • Learners benefit when exposed to diverse viewpoints • Learning flourishes in a social environment • Learners are challenged socially and emotionally

9. Collaborative Learning “Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of educational approaches involving joint intellectual effort by students, or students and teachers together. Usually students are working in groups of two or more, mutually searching for understanding, solutions or meanings, or creating a product. Collaborative learning activities vary widely, but most center on students’ exploration or application of the course material, not simply the teacher’s presentation or explication of it”. Smith and McGregor (1992)

11. Characteristics • Positive interdependence • Individual accountability • Face to face interaction • Group Processing

12. Positive Interdependence • Each group member's efforts are required and indispensable for group success • Each group member has a unique contribution to make to the joint effort because of his or her resources and/or role and task responsibilities • Sink or swim together!

13. Individual & Group Accountability • Keeping the size of the group small. • Giving an individual test to each student. • Randomly examining students orally. • Observing each group and recording the frequency with which each member-contributes to the group's work. • Assigning one student in each group the role of checker. • Having students teach what they learned to someone else.

14. Face to Face Interaction • Orally explaining how to solve problems • Teaching one's knowledge to others • Checking for understanding • Discussing concepts being learned • Connecting present with past learning

15. Group Processing • Group members discuss how well they are achieving their goals and maintaining effective working relationships • Describe what member actions are helpful and not helpful • Make decisions about what behaviors to continue or change

16. Successful Group Learning Requires: • Careful composition of collaborative groups • Use of meaningful, reciprocally interdependent tasks • Delegate authority to teams to govern themselves (group leader for example) • Create a supportive physical environment • Establishing mechanisms to drive continuous learning

17. Reflection Question: Teacher Kathy has 20 learners, 5 of them are girls and the rest are boys. How will you group them? Why ?

18. Teaching vs. Learning John Amos Comenius, a 16th Century scholar; summarized the approach that teaching should follow, “The main object is to find a method by which teachers teach less but learners learn more.”

19. References: What is collaborative learning? Retrieved from http://archive.wceruw.org/cl1/cl/moreinfo/MI2A.htm RA 10533 Retreived from https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2013/09/04/irr-republic-act-no-10533/ Kurt, S. (2020) Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding Retrieved from https://educationaltechnology.net/vygotskys-zone-of-proximal- development-and-scaffolding/

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