Once you have read this guide, your comprehension of collaborative learning will be enhanced. You will receive practical advice on how to enhance and establish collaborative learning in your organization.
Collaborative Learning is now widely used as a key learning approach in higher education. In today's society, students are expected to come together and collaborate on important matters, rather than working alone. This change from individual work to group work, and from independence to community, is made possible through Collaborative Learning.
In August, Gary went out to Salem to hold a professional learning institute to assist the Oregon Department of Education in building educator capacity to pilot validated, high quality performance assessments in the classrooms. He writes about the experience and marvels at how quickly and unexpectedly we can find ourselves in the position to do great work in education
Many confuse the terms blended learning with personalized learning. Blended learning is an instructional model that integrates digital and online media content into teacher instructional practice. Ramona summarizes five approaches to bringing more blended approach to learning into the classroom.
“College and career ready” is the clarion call of today’s education policymakers. Yet, there is something that is missing – the higher purpose for public education, that of preparing all of our students to become active, contributing citizens in creating a just and equitable world. “Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” - Horace Mann
After a recent review of Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Ramona reflects on the importance of Growth Mindset and how educators can employ strategies that truly prepare students to be confident, self-directed, and collaborative lifelong learners.
No two projects, when divergent thinking principles are embedded, are ever the same—and this makes assessment something it often is not: FUN!