Collaborative learning approach
- 2. Meaning • “Collaborative learning” is an umbrella term for a variety of educational approaches involving joint intellectual effort by students, or students and teachers together. • Usually, students are working in groups of two or more, mutually searching for understanding, solutions, or meanings, or creating a product. • Collaborative learning activities vary widely, but most center on students’ exploration or application of the course material, not simply the teacher’s presentation or explication of it.
- 3. In collaborative classrooms, the lecturing/ listening/note-taking process may not disappear entirely, but it lives alongside other processes that are based in students’ discussion and active work with the course material. Teachers who use collaborative learning approaches tend to think of themselves less as expert transmitters of knowledge to students, and more as expert designers of intellectual experiences for students-as coaches or mid-wives of a more emergent learning process.
- 4. Collaborative learning puts students together to work in heterogeneous groups. All perspectives of all learners are utilized for enriching learning; all are seen as equal contributors, collaborating to achieve a mutual goal. Collaborative consultation encourages shared responsibility in planning and decision making. The focus on the collective knowledge and thinking of the group changes the roles of students and teachers and the way they interact in the classroom.
- 5. Definition “Collaborative learning is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of learners work together to solve a problem, to complete a task and/ or create a product.”
- 9. Essential features of Collaborative Learning • 1. A group learning task is designed based on shared learning goals and outcomes • 2. Students work in teams to master academic materials • 3. Reward systems are group oriented than individual oriented • 4. Co-operative behaviour involves trust building activities, joint planning and understanding of • team support. • 5. Students involvement in learning activities are more • 6. Encourages students to acquire an active voice
- 10. steps • Problem • Formation Of Groups • Sharing Of Ideas • Teacher Facilitates And Learning Evidence • Feedback
- 12. ADVANTAGES • Enhances Problem-solving Skills • Inspires Critical Thinking • Improves Social Interactions and Supports Diversity • Aid the Development of Self-management Skills • Development of Oral Communication Skills • Fosters the Development of Interpersonal Relationships
- 13. ADVANTAGES • Promotes social and intellectual involvement • Cultivation of teamwork, community building, and leadership skills • Enhanced student satisfaction and promoting positive attitudes • Open expression of ideas in groups • Patience in hearing others • Team building • Shared responsibility