Achieve more with Collaboration

CREATING COLLABORATION

 A very affective way to get students learning is to teach them how to work in small groups. This allows lots of discussion, active involvement of all students and a gives them the opportunity to offer ideas in a less scary environment than having the whole class see and hear you.and learn from their peers.  It also allows 'Piggy-Backing'.  This is not copying, but simply students being helped up the ladder by those more confident or knowledgeable.

 The teachers led the way by working together to get their heads around how to use De Bono's Thinking Hats in the classroom.  Each small cooperative group brainstormed and discussed several different scenarios or problems using the Thinking Hats to help them look from different perspectives.  We found the Hats helped us to go more deeply into the problem and find more creative and usable solutions.

 

In class, teachers have been breaking down what it means to be cooperative and reflecting on why it is good to collaborate together.  Here Teacher Ieng is getting the students to share their group's findings to the class about what it means to collaborate.

 

 Here the students worked in small groups to design their 

own game for others to play in sport.  

 They had to discuss, design, create rules and then set the game up at the stadium using a tape measure.  What a huge amount of fun and pride the students had when playing THEIR game they had created together.  Well done Teacher Omnat.

Students working in small groups, brainstorming and discussing what COLLABORATION is.  Believe it or not, many of them can spell it too.