Putting Collaboration into Learning N2.4

This unit explores how you might build the habit of Collaboration in your students.

Sections 1 – 4 look at;

1. Collaboration and how it develops. The Collaboration Chart. Unpick the meaning of Collaboration, how it develops over time and use the Collaboration chart to plot where your students are now.
2. Taking Collaboration into classroom culture. Activities for Collaboration. Offers numerous suggestions to develop a Collaboration friendly culture and build students’ Collaboration skills.
3. Blending Collaboration with content. Dual Focused Lesson ideas. Suggests a series of questions and steps you might use to ensure the development of Collaboration claims its place in the curriculum and is designed into lesson/activities to aid understanding.
4. Team reflection and planning.  Share the impact of your experiments with colleagues and plan what you need to do next.

The resource materials in the Learning Diary: Collaboration  help you to distil important messages, home in on the key bits of information and design learning experiments specifically for you.