If you’ve been reading a lot of my collaboration posts and feeling like you don’t know how to get started and feeling overwhelmed by the thought of creating a collaborative project from scratch, I am here to tell you there is an easier way!
Read MoreIf you’re just joining me, I’ve been posting a series of articles on the 3 Crucial Elements of Any Collaborative Learning Task. I’ve done my first deep dive into part 1 of the process: Frontload. Now we are going to jump in with the next element: Facilitate.
Read MoreCollaborative, Cooperative, po-tay-to, po-tah-to. Do these words mean basically the same thing, just said in a different way? These terms are pretty much identical, right? I used to think that was the case, but through my research on this subject, I’ve learned that the philosophies are different at their core and it is important to know the differences. Once I fully grasped the distinctions between these two seemingly interchangeable words, it completely revolutionized how I ran my classroom. Let me show you why these terms are more like a potato, tomato situation.
Read MoreIf you don’t already know this about me, I am passionate about collaboration. Not only do I love collaboration, I want all teachers to feel confident implementing collaborative activities into their classrooms. It can feel overwhelming when you are getting started, but I am here to support you and give you tips and resources to get your students collaborating.
Read MoreIf you have been following me for a while, you know one of my great passions is COLLABORATION. If you’re just joining me, check out some of my past articles on collaborative learning. They will set the foundation for your understanding in this article.
Read MoreWhen you are reading through your curriculum and you spy a “group project” suggestion, do you wince internally and quickly try to find a way to adapt it into an individual project, or even skip it all together? Believe me, I’ve been there. Activities and projects with more than one participant are the most challenging because it can feel like the only thing you are doing all day is conflict management. Are collaborative learning projects really worth it?
Read MoreThrough my research on and 15 years of practice with collaboration in the classroom, I’ve been working towards taking this HUGE concept of collaborative learning and simplifying it for easy application in EVERY classroom. Here’s what I’ve discovered
Read MoreIf you are starting the year with new colleagues, or even if you have been teaching with the same teachers for years, but you want to hit the “reset button” to re-evaluate and discuss how you work together, use these 6 talking points to help you set the expectations for how to collaborate well with your (new) team.
Read MoreIf you don’t already know by now, I am quite a fan of collaborative learning. Maybe fan isn’t quite the right term, obsessed may be more accurate? Either way, I am passionate about implementing collaborative learning into the fiber of my classroom and advocating for and equipping other teachers to use it in their classrooms as well. One of the things I love most about collaboration is that it brings the amount of talking students get to do in the classroom to an all time HIGH. Does that proposition chill you to your very core? Why would I want my students talking all the time when I spend so much time trying to get them QUIET?! And that is PRECISELY why this method is so successful, because we all know we are fighting a losing battle trying to keep students quiet all day, but also, research shows that students learn much more when they get to talk about their learning and process it with other people out LOUD.
Read MoreWe all know it is natural for the majority of students to interrupt while they’re having conversations. They want to be heard, and they want to ensure their friends and peers affirm their own point of view. SO THEY SAY THEIR OPINION AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE OVER ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS AT THEIR TABLE. The struggle is real, am I right teacher friend? So I created a Talking Stick to help scaffold my students’ development in learning how to LISTEN and allow one person to talk in a team at a time.
Read MoreCollaboration. That infamous buzz word we hear echoing through the hallways, in the teacher seminars, professional development, blogosphere, Pinterest, it’s everywhere. And the one primary response most teachers give when presented with implementing collaboration in their classrooms, “That all sounds great, but it sounds like too much work.”
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