Enhancing Collaborative Learning in Schools for Future Success
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Presentation Transcript
Aims • To recognise the nature of collaborative learning and its key attributes. • To recognise potential benefits of collaborative learning. • To consider how collaborative learning might be developed in the school. • To agree action that would result in increased opportunities for collaborative learning.
Background • In a rapidly changing world, schools face the challenge of equipping children with skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work. • Many schools are responding to this challenge by implementing strategies that facilitate collaborative learning – ie, giving children and young people opportunities to work together and in teams to meet learning challenges. • Collaborative learning is viewed as one of the key outcomes of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence.
Activity 2: Group discussion What do you understand by the term collaborative learning?
Activity 3: Collaborative learning video Possible questions: • What are the main arguments for collaborative learning, as presented in this film? • To what extent do you agree or disagree with these views?
Activity 4: Illustrative videos Possible questions: • What features of collaborative learning are evident in this illustration? • What are the benefits of working in this way for pupils and staff? • Are there examples of this in our school? • What might our school learn from this example of collaborative working?
Activity 5: Self-reflection To what extent do you provide the following learning opportunities? • providing experiences that require pupils to work and learn in groups? • providing learning experiences that require pupils to work with a partner? • providing opportunities for pupils to work in co-operative learning teams? (d) teaching, or helping learners to develop, team-working skills?
Activity 5: Self-reflection (continued) (e) providing opportunities for peer teaching or peer mentoring? • assigning pupils roles within a coo-operative learning group (or enabling pupils to assign roles)? (g) enabling learners to assess the work of groups? • providing opportunities for working in wider learning communities (for example online learning communities)?
