I believe that collaboration is extremely beneficial for the educational growth of our students. On Wednesday, January 24th I had the opportunity to attend a coaching workshop on Flipped Lessons. I was amazed with the the collaboration that went on in the room. We learned skills that we will be able to utilize with our students. This evidence supports element 6-4. I have also learned a lot about collaboration from my site mentor, my team members, and the grade level teachers at my site . A perfect example is the suggestion my site mentor did when I was teaching the number line. She suggested I use a whiteboard so that the students were able to interact when learning the new technique. I tried it and definitely made an improvement. My group
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By working together there is information sharing, improve safety and quality also collaboration gives knowledge to other professionals. (Littlechild and Smith, 2013).what I have learned through working in partnership with other professionals was creating a poster related to what each professional does. Some of the professionals I did not know how exactly they work together in partnership. Example: I was not aware of how a radiology would work with a social work and the outcome of that was that Radiology develop and maintain collaborative relationship with medical colleagues and participates in regular meetings with other professionals activities to meet the needs of a service users therefore they collaborate with Social Workers. By doing a poster and delivering information I learned a lot from the other team members, shared experiences knowledge and skills with other group members. Group work made me realise how it is very important to work in multi-displinary team, the benefit of it and what others can benefit from. During the poster each of the student was from different professional however we all had the question but each had to look at it in each profession perspectives. This gave an opportunity to everyone to go and search for each professional and communicate with the rest of the group the outcome of the presentation. By doing that, we exchanged ideas learned from each other’s skills and used it into practice. I have learned about sharing information with others, learned about communication and
“COOPERATIVE LEARNING (CL), THE Instructionaluse of small groups in order toachieve common learning goals via cooperation,has made an almost unprecedented impact in educationduring the last two decades.According toJohnson, and Smith (1995)CL is oneof the most thoroughly researched areas in educationalpsychology. As they assert,We know more about cooperative learning than weknow about lecturing, age grouping, departmentalization,starting reading at age six, or the 50-minuteperiod. We know more about cooperative learning than about almost any other aspect of education.”
According to the Flipped Network, “Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter”(FLN, 2014). The Flipped Classroom is also known as inverting the classroom, which means that the events that usually take place in this defined by classroom will now take place outside the classroom and vise versa. Teachers can have students use the plethora of technologies to assist the students by having access to lectures, video presentations, and other materials
Collaboration begins with networking, coordination, and cooperation and then requires team members to share decisions, responsibility, and trust. It requires that team members invest time and energy to come up with options and design strategies for carrying out these plans. Because collaboration requires lots of time and energy, it is impossible to make all decisions collaboratively. In some instances, the desired result can be achieved through networking, coordination, or cooperation. Working together, or collaboratively, invites participation of multiple service providers and the use of multiple resources. See the Student Stories below for examples of collaboration in action.
What’s the best use of time in the classroom?” Is it delivering face to face lectures to your students? Or is it doing hands on activities and homework where your students are able to ask questions? This educational controversy is known as the Traditional vs. Flipped Classroom debate (Gobry.) I will argue that the flipped classroom method should be implemented into school classrooms because of the increased one on one time for students and teachers, its benefits during absences, and because students can guide their own learning.
Collaboration reflections (Fall). The collaboration evaluations from the Fall semester were looked at in relation to the teacher notes from each day in a chart. On this chart, it is visible which days the students and I agreed on the teamwork behavior that was their goal that day, and what I saw them struggling with Students’ collaboration reflections were compiled for each child over the course of the semester, recording both what skill they chose as a focus and how they self-assessed progress. I compared these self-assessments to my own assessments of their needed goals and progress in order to identify growth or lack thereof over the course of the semester.
According to Flipped Classroom – The Results 85% of students that have a flipped classroom have seen their grades improve (Flipped Classroom – The Results). Having a flipped classroom is doing homework in class and watching videos at home. The videos are based off lessons that are made by the teachers. While the students watch the videos they take notes or after do an activity that goes along with it. A traditional classroom is doing the lessons in class and doing homework at home. Having a flipped classroom helps students academically because they can learn at their own pace, provides more resources, and grades will improve.
Flipped learning involves leveraging e-learning technologies to provide students with content prior to the lesson so that in the group context more time can be spent in group activities (Johnson and Renner, 2012). This promotes a collaborative learning environment in the classroom (Jarvela, Volet and Jarvenoja, 2010, Stahl, 2012). The aim of flipped learning is to develop an active learning environment within the classroom without sacrificing the coverage of content (Strayer, 2007). The impact is to develop in the student active learning, social learning and creative learning skills (Miltbrandt, 2004).
Without a doubt the lessons and exercises on time management were the most meaningful to me. They brought insight into why I seemed to be constantly working yet still never really got anything I wanted to accomplish throughout the day finished. I realized the majority of the activities I had been spending the most time on didn’t reflect my values of hard work and self discipline and long term academic goals to be successful in college. This motivated to completely change the way I managed my time by effectively striking a balance between my maintenance, committed, and free time.
Building self-esteem, enhancing student satisfaction with the learning experience, and promoting a positive attitude toward the subject matter are all benefits of collaborative learning. A higher degree of accomplishment takes place as a group because you essentially are a team. An example of this is a sports team. In a collaborative situation it takes every member to do his or her part in order for a situation to have a greater resolution; as where a sports team needs everybody’s individual talent to win a game. In retrospect, as a group; the contributions of our own talents can make the difference between a “win or Lose situation” it gives you a sense of competition, and knowing that you can win as a group; self esteem in one’s self is accentuated. Johnson and Johnson (1989), Slavin (1967). Another benefit to collaborative learning is based on the members of your group. Every individual in the group demonstrates their own input based on where they were born, what nationality they are so on and so on. The benefit of this is that you get a different perspective on things rather than always knowing what you know. You can take information from other cultures and add or apply it to what you already know.
Crazy Teaching Methods: Flipped Classes Just recently, the flipped classroom has started to become a new method for teaching. My current math class is flipped and I am struggling a lot more than I ever have in past math classes. I feel that it is not as effective as normal teaching and that it shouldn’t be used. A flipped class is where the teacher explains the lesson in a video. I feel it is not as good as normal teaching because there is no direct contact.
The authors state that when students do group work the problem is that we’re not sure where one student’s influence ends and another’s begin. It is rare when collaborative projects provide opportunity to determine individual learning regarding specific learner outcome. We must assess students outside the group project to see what each one takes away from the experience. The authors state that unless we’re teaching a class on group projects, group work is only the means to an end, not the actual curriculum. For grades to be accurate and useful, they must speak only to the posted curriculum (Wormeli, 2011). Given the importance of collaboration skills in 21st century classrooms, a reasonable approach to assessing group projects is to give each member of the group a job. A teacher needs to carefully monitor the students and create a detailed checklist to make sure that everyone in the group is doing their job. This way you know where the one student’s influence ends and another’s begin. The teacher also needs to pull students outside the group question them on concepts to check their understanding along the way.
...I believe through the use of critical thinking, communication with students and parents and showing the creative side of learning the collaboration within colleague would be enhanced. I know from my prior experience within the classroom as a substitute that without some collaboration the students are at a disadvantage. One memory stands out the most when collaboration is mention is when I was subbing for a ECE Teacher in a regular learning classroom, while the teacher was giving the rest of the students their assignments I was working one on one with a ECE student that needed the extra help in order to fulfill their task. The teacher and I collaborated on the questions that the student had left to complete before moving on to their homework. Through the use of collaboration the student was able to complete their task and be on the same task as the rest of the class.
In the process of completing this coursework, I have realised that every teacher should be all-rounded and equipped with adequate skills of educating others as well as self-learning. As a future educator, we need make sure that our knowledge is always up-to-date and applicable in the process of teaching and learning from time to time. With these skills, we will be able to improvise and improve the lesson and therefore boost the competency of pupils in the process of learning. In the process of planning a lesson, I have changed my perception on lesson planning from the student’s desk to the teacher’s desk. I have taken the responsibility as a teacher to plan a whole 60-minutes lesson with my group members. This coursework has given me an opportunity