Collaborative Learning

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Ideas for CL

Productive group work

Guided instruction can be used throughout

Teaching ideas

Jigsaw learning

Reciprocal teaching

Predicting

Questioning

Clarifying

Summarizing

Collaborative posters

Discussion roundtable

Uses new knowledge to solve a problem

Basic group work

Uses old knowledge to think about an idea

Corner activities

Think-pair-share

Carousel activities

Aspects of CL

Use of academic language

Interaction with at least one peer

Cooperative learning

Group processing

Development of soft skills

Accountability

Face-to-face interaction

Positive interdependence

Why?

Students retain information and learn more in groups

The development of soft skills

Critical for career and college preparation