What is collaborative classroom?

What is collaborative classroom?

1. New Learning and Thinking Curricula Require Collaboration

   • successful learning involve an interaction of: l
     • Learners
       • Materials
         • Teacher
           • Context
   • Effective communication and collaboration
     • Dialogue and examining
     • Learning
     • Collective Knowledge

2. Characteristics of a Collaborative Classroom

   • Shared knowledge among teachers and students
   • Teachers as mediators
   • Heterogeneous groupings of students
   • Shared authority among teachers and students

3. Teacher Roles in a Collaborative Classroom

   • Facilitator Facilitating
     • linking new information
       • Prior knowledge
     • Providing opportunities
       • Perspectives
       • Collaborative Learning
   • Model
     • Local and state guidelines
     • Thinking aloud
       • Demostrating
     • Group process

4. Student Roles in a Collaborative Classroom

   • Goal setting
     • Process that helps guide
   • Designing Learning Tasks and Monitoring
     • Self-regulating abilities
   • Assessment
     • Self -assessment

5. Interactions in a Collaborative Classroom

   • Avoid recitation
   • Two-way communication
     • Dialogue among studetns

6. Challenges and Conflicts

   • Classroom Control
   • Preparation Time for Collaborative Learning
   • Individual Differences Among Students
   • Individual Responsibility for Learning
   • Conflict of Values

7. What Is the Research Base for Collaborative Learning?

   • Vygotskian Theory
     • Assume the child (learner) is competent
     • Know the child (learner)
     • Share an interest in the task at hand with the child (learner)
     • Follow the child's (learner's) lead
     • Capitalize on uncertainty

8. Other Research

   • A number of researchers in recent years have demonstrated the high degree of learning possible
     • when students can collaborate in learning tasks and when they use their own knowledge as a foundation for school learning