TLC 2 Collaborative Learning

After the success of the collaborative challenge in TLC 1 we thought we would begin the session in a similar way. The task involved a selection of Country Dingbats that people had to work out in their triads. As this session was about how we make collaboration effective we assigned roles to people in each team.

• Creative thinker (They were the only person allowed to see the dingbats)
• Writer (Their task was to fill in the answer sheet)
• Communicator (Their role was the go between and the coordinator of the teams' strategy) 

Each member of the triad had a turn at each role so that the task was shared out fairly and that each person got to practice each skill.

After engaging with the task and discussing why assigning roles helped the effectiveness of collaboration we spent sometime reflecting on the group work we had tried since TLC1. We started this by sharing what we ourselves had done as TLC leaders.

To continue with the theme of making collaboration effective the triads were asked to produce a success criteria that could be used with any age, ability of subject.This prompted a good discussion on what is important and of high priority for effective collaboration.

Finally individuals were given some time to use everything we have done in the previous TLc sessions to make a resource or plan a lesson that they would deliver before TLC 3 focusing on effective collaboration.