Collaboration Can Have Powerful Effects On Student Learning

In my classroom, I demonstrate collaboration by attending the Kinder PLC meeting every Tuesday. These meetings help the grade level teachers to collaborate. For example, to come up with ideas on how to teach a specific concept, talk about any updates, student assistance team (SAT) , and data analysis. I demonstrate collaboration by working with my colleagues to come up with writing prompts and writing rubrics. By doing this we make sure the expectations in each classroom are the same.

Collaboration: In a community of learners, students work together in teams, partners, or groups. This allows students to gain social skills and increases students’ motivation for the project. Students share ideas and gain a new understanding of the content.

Teacher Collaboration measures the degree to which teachers engage in constructive dialogue that furthers the educational vision of the school.

Throughout my academic career, most of the courses I’ve taken were self-disciplined and few projects I was involved with involved teamwork and collaboration. Despite this, my classmates and I would always have group study sessions to do homework and to study the night before a big test. My best examples of collaboration are from my experience while playing varsity basketball.

I approach collaboration as a team player, and I believe students need more than one person to guide them to their full educational potential. Also, active and prepared participation of weekly PLC meetings with the teachers of my special education students to plan collaborative curriculum have increased results in math and reading substantially. Participating in co-teaching furthers my repertoire of knowledge to assist my students. I have learned a vast amount from sharing and consulting with colleagues regarding students, observing mentoring teachers, and planning activities to ensure growth in students.

Collaboration supports children to engage meaningfully with each other. When children collaborate with their teachers and peers, they effectively combine together to join in a deep and wilful desire to co-labour or unpack a series of events on topics of interest and importance. Collaboration has the capacity to provide rich learning environments for children with diverse, corresponding motivations and learning practices. It also produces new engaging challenges and opportunities for children to express their thoughts and feelings. These combine to enrich and transform the relationships children have with the subject material and enhance their relationships with peers and

This session was conducted in the schools detention room during fifth period. Anthony Cruz a Hispanic male recently enrolled at Morris Academy for Collaborative studies. (AC) and his older sister were raised in a one parent household. (AC) states that his biological mother is addicted to drugs. He has never met his biological father. (AC) believes that he and his biological sister were removed from the home due to the mother being both physically and verbally abusive. (AC) states that bio mother would often hit him and his sister with a belt. After being removed from the home (AC’s) bio aunt became his care giver (AC) refers to bio aunt as mom. (AC) and his older sister were placed in different homes.

In Case Study 5.1, Mrs. James not only effectively started her class with sharing her own experiences and building relationship with her students but also emphasized the importance of group work, which is in helping and learning from each other. She illustrated the following strategies and routines that supported cooperative learning: room arrangement, talk and movement procedures and individual accountability by building students’ social, explanation and sharing skills.

This article discusses the importance of collaboration between speech language pathologists (SLPs) and behavior analysts when it comes to the IEP process of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). SLPs and behavior analysts are most likely to be on a student’s IEP Team if they are ASD diagnosed. The IEP Team needs to have collaboration among all team members in order to make appropriate decisions on the development and implementation of behavior plans, and determine the appropriate developmental level for instruction to be written into the IEP. The people who are giving the services to the student with ASD must be highly trained and be consistent in the student’s schedule. When someone interacting with a student with ASD is consistent, behavioral challenges are more likely to decrease when working with them. If the IEP Team mutually understands the importance of collaboration, and consistency, the team will be more successful with their process. With the prevalence of ASD at 1 in 68 children (as of 2014 gathered from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) it is important to know how an IEP Team

Collaborating with children will be important because they are able to provide feedback on learning, give suggestion about what they are interested in learning, and create plans to execute learning. As the teacher I am giving my students the freedom to carry out their own learning within boundaries with me there to support them (Bredekamp, 2014). Collaborating with families is important as well because they are the experts on their child (Mcafee & Leong, 2007). I will do this by communicating clearly, honestly, and sensitively with each child’s family. When working with families I will look at them as an equal partner. Both the teacher and the family member(s) can provide information about the child that can tailor instruction to best suit their needs (Gonzalez-Mena, 2002). Communicating and working with other professionals will also an essential aspect of being a teacher. Other professionals will be able to bring insights about particular situations and provide ways to improve instruction, flow of classroom, and outcome of learning and/or behavior. Overall, to maintain all of these collaborative relationships it is essential to continue to reflect on what is working, what can be improved, and what the goals are we working towards (Sandall & Schwartz, 2002). After having the opportunity to observe and work in a variety of classroom settings, I was able to see how successful collaborative relationships can foster the development of young children. For example, I was working in a preschool classroom had a special education teacher working in the classroom with a student and applied some of the accommodations throughout the room. While talking to the special education teacher, I realized that these accommodations (hand fidgets, visual schedule, and looking at the classroom setting/environment and how it makes the students

At the start of the school year, I had a recent immigrant with no English proficiency begin his first grade year at my school. After learning of this student and his family, I schedule a meeting with an interpreter to gather background information and family history. During the meeting, I learned that the boy and his family moved to Colorado from Venezuela early in the spring to escape political crisis. They have since experienced emotional ups and down as well as financial challenges. Neither parent were able to find work, and were not meeting their bills. Mom also reported that her over the last few months her son seems depressed and disconnected from the family. She added that he did not seem to be connecting with peers and

Collaborative learning stems from the theory of Vygotsky’s conception of Zone of proximal development. The thought is that children learn best with “help and guidance” (Ormrod, 2012). In transitioning this zone to a collaborative learning experience, children work with their peers in broadening their learning experience, allowing small groups of students to work together to share knowledge, exchange ideas, problem solve, and more. These classroom environments help to create durable abilities in students and aid in producing a “smoother integration into adult society when the activities resemble real-world tasks” (Ormrod, 2012). As students work with peers and adults, they adopt some of the learning strategies demonstrated and develop more skills in problem solving. This scaffolding creates a trickle-down effect of knowledge construction. In collaborative learning, students are afforded a myriad of enriching opportunities to explore perspectives that may differ from their own. These activities serve to create a self-awareness in the student of their responsibilities to a group, requiring them to self-monitor their activity (Lee, Tsai, Chai, & Koh, 2014).

Collaborative and cooperative learning promotes student learning through group-oriented activities. Collaborative learning is a method of teaching and learning in which student teams will work together to create a meaningful multimedia project. Cooperative learning, which will be the primary focus of this paper, is a specific kind of collaborative learning. In cooperative learning, students work together in small groups on a structured activity. Cooperative groups will work face-to-face and will learn to work as a team. The multimedia project will allow all students to benefit from gaining a deeper knowledge of the multimedia matters through communication with their peers and building relationships among their peers of different

“Through collaboration, ideas can be shared, new and better strategies can be developed, problems can be solved, students’ progresses can be better monitored, and their outcomes are evaluated effectively.”¬ (Lee, 1996).

Collaborative learning is founded on the idea that the learning process is a naturally social act which requires the participants to talk among themselves. Collaborative learning involves small groups of students who act on a structured learning activity to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product. In simpler terms, the students work in groups to learn or understand a new concept they are studying. In this learning approach, it is important to understand that the students are accountable for individual work as well as the group work they do as a group in collaborative learning