Learner-Centered Collaborative

Develop Collaboration Skills: I design and facilitate learning experiences that foster students’ collaboration skills. Authentic Learning Strategy: Helping Learners Teach Each Other Leverage cooperative learning strategies in which learners teach each other something. In these learning experiences, each learner has a unique piece of information that they share with a group. This helps teach collaboration skills, especially active listening and asking questions. Bright Spots Gain inspiration from authentic examples of this strategy shared by teachers who have used them with their learners. Creating your own Bright Spots? Let's get them out into the ...

Develop Collaboration Skills: I design and facilitate learning experiences that foster students’ collaboration skills. Authentic Learning Strategy: Lead Guided Discussions Guided discussions are group conversations that use a structured protocol and usually a variety of sentence stems to support learners with the conversation. These build collaboration skills that can be used in larger group projects. Bright Spots Gain inspiration from authentic examples of this strategy shared by teachers who have used them with their learners. Creating your own Bright Spots? Let's get them out into the world! Share yours here. ...

Promote Peer Feedback: I develop students’ abilities to collaborate with peers via strategies such as peer assessment Authentic Learning Strategy: Provide Peer Feedback Protocols Introduce feedback protocols to students that provide a structure for giving high-quality peer feedback. Example protocols include:  Warm & cool feedback 2 stars and 1 wish 1 glow and 1 grow I like, I wish, I wonder Bright Spots Gain inspiration from authentic examples of this strategy shared by teachers who have used them with their learners. Creating your own Bright Spots? Let's get them out into the world! ...

Design for Equitable Collaboration: I design collaborative group work that engages and stretches each learner, allowing them to demonstrate desired learning outcomes Authentic Learning Strategy: Strategically Group Learners for Collaborative Learning Experiences When assigning group work you can assign groups to learners or allow them to choose their own groups. Research has shown motivation is higher when students select their own groups, and many students prefer this method. However, there are benefits to selecting groups: encourages learners to work with new people they don’t normally interact with, increases the diversity of thought, and strategically makes ...

Design for Equitable Collaboration: I design collaborative group work that engages and stretches each learner, allowing them to demonstrate desired learning outcomes Authentic Learning Strategy: Create Group Roles When learners are working in groups, they need to have clear roles and expectations that support the group's success. In smaller collaborative learning experiences such as a group discussion, those roles may include timekeeper, scribe, reporter, facilitator, etc. In more complex group projects, student roles should be more meaningful, which may mean that they complete different tasks than their group mates or that they contribute to ...

Navigate Group Dynamics: I support students to navigate the challenges of collaboration Authentic Learning Strategy: Create group working norms with learners Creating group norms as the outset of any collaborative learning experience supports learners to work well together and provides the teacher with an anchor for providing feedback to learners on their collaboration. These norms should be co-created with learners. After practicing with learners to create group norms as a class, asking them to create their own team contracts can help them own their own norms and figure out the best way to work ...

Navigate Group Dynamics: I support students to navigate the challenges of collaboration Authentic Learning Strategy: Make Group Progress Visible Create a way to display group progress during collaborative work blocks to keep track of progress as a class. A few ways that you might do this include: Create a physical or digital timeline and plot student groups using post-its or magnets to show where they are in the project based on deadlines Create a spreadsheet and display it to show progress Use timers and ask groups to create goals to complete within a certain ...