Empowered+-+Student+Collaboration

Share some ideas within your groups about student collaboration. Consider some of the questions below:
 * List ways you allow students to collaborate within your rooms
 * What's the purpose of their collaboration?
 * Which method of collaboration works the best for you?
 * What does ideal student collaboration look like?

Write your ideas/notes below... -roles -researchers -monitors -presenters -editors -artists/musicians/tech whiz -leader -small groups (partners) -larger groups -whole class -The purpose of collaboration is to complete a project or goal. -Good comunication and valid research are necessary for good collaboration.

-Everyone is engaged and participating during collaboration -Time goes by quickly -Enthusiasm - The task MUST be interesting to the students for collaboration to work.

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Collaboration helps develop leadership skills among students and everyone has vested interested. Students help others to stay on task and focused.

Mainly (in my American Government classes) I use it to allow students to reflect on issues where there are multiple points of view to consider or multiple means of solving a problem. I hope this reinforces democratic processes for the students and allows for new questions or problems to arrise. These are usually small group exercises with groups composed by me rather than by the students.

In English, collaboration on a work of fiction lead to ideas of the process of generating a short story. Each student can be take on the following roles: 1. Topic,theme, genre and setting. 2. Creation of an outline of the story in 3 acts. 3. Each writer will be in charge of one act. 4. One writer edits and proofreads. 5. One writer serves as a reader.


 * Small groups work best because it almost "forces" each individual to contribute, rather than larger groups where a few students do all of the work while others do nothing.
 * Collaboration with more complex problems allows for students to work together to solve them.
 * Ideal collaboration would have everyone engaged in the task or converstation. It can get a little noisy in the room, with lots of energy.