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Putting Collaboration into Learning

This session is designed to guide you through a process of building the habit of Collaboration in your pupils.

It invites you to undertake some rich activities in the form of  learning experiments in your classrooms, helping  you to organise your own discoveries and extend your own understanding of the power of building pupils’ learning habits.

Work through sections 1 – 4 where you will consider:

  1. Collaboration and how it develops. Unpick the meaning of Collaboration, how it develops over time and use the Collaboration grid to plot where your pupils are now.
  2. Taking Collaboration into classroom culture. An introduction to the classroom culture of Building Learning Power with particular reference to nurturing Collaboration. Check what you do now.
  3. Introducing activities and routines to  Look for ways of building Collaboration into learning activities/tasks.
  4. Team reflection and planning.  Share the impact of your experiments with colleagues and plan what you need to do next.
You will probably need to spend 30-45 mins on sections 1-3. Section 1 may take about 20 minutes to get your head round.  Section 2 should take you about 10 minutes. Section 3 needs at least a 20 minute browse. Section 4 is a linked Professional Learning Team session which will have been organised to take place sometime after this on-line session. The team session is timed to take about 75 minutes.  

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