Collaborative Learning

Collaborative Learning

To start the new year off in a positive, fresh and inspiring way, we started the TLC off with a collaborative challenge where each team (each triad) had envelopes containing card pieces that had been cut up and mixed up. Each team had to work together to develop a bargaining strategy to collect pieces to make up complete sets of cards.

Baiboard was then used to get each person in the triads working together to discuss what collaborative learning was like.

We then reflected on what collaborative strategies are already used in teaching and shared ideas and brought back a blast from the past - Kagan! http://www.kaganonline.com/

Each triad was then given some ideas to read and to think about to use in their lessons to incorporate collaborative learning.

The final activity was for each member to make a commitment to try a strategy in lessons to embed collaborative learning styles into their teaching.