Student Collaboration: Collaboration Series Part 3 [S4 E104]

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Welcome to our third of four episodes in a series all about collaboration! In case you missed it, in part one  episode 101, we talked about collaborating with your teacher team (instead of being a lone wolf!). In part two, episode 103, Erin Castillo joined Marie to share about SPED and classroom teacher collaboration. 

Today, we are going to start talking about you know, the star of the show…the kids! Yes, it’s time to bring students into the conversation! We're sharing about several different things, from student-to-student peer collaboration, to teacher-to-student collaboration.

As you may already know, collaboration is something that we are extremely passionate about. Group work and collaboration are one of our pillars. By pillars we mean the pieces of what make you a person, what make you a teacher, and what you want to see your classroom consistently look like.

For us, that means that regularly, we are asking students to collaborate. We're modeling collaboration. We're constantly talking about how the world functions better when we work as a team - because it does!

By the way, we teach you how to create your own pillars in Curriculum Rehab!

You’ll hear specific examples of how we have encouraged, and intentionally planned for, student collaboration in our own classrooms. Don’t worry, we’re going way beyond those icebreakers that no one actually wants to do. These ideas for student collaboration will not only encourage higher-level thinking, but also help to build a strong classroom community and culture.

If you have some great collaboration ideas that you would like everyone to hear, please leave us a comment on this page or send us a message on Instagram @bravenewteaching so that we can share.

Topics Covered:

  • Looking at teachers and students as collaborators

  • Collaborative peer to peer student strategies

  • Translating your teaching pillars into your practice

  • How you can use hexagonal thinking to encourage natural student collaboration

  • Why the way that your room is physically set up can affect collaboration

  • Opportunities for student collaboration with technology

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Amanda Cardenas