Collaboration:
“Students work interdependently to achieve common goals while promoting effective teamwork, shared responsibility, flexibility, and mutual respect.”
Through our CivicTREK projects, we are helping our students meet the Five C’s goals from Profile of a Virginia Graduate such as collaboration.
- How can we make sure that we are involving ALL students in the teamwork process?
- What can we do to set up the collaborative experience so that each student has the opportunity to assume responsibility for the team product?
- How might we encourage student teams to respect and value the diversity of contributions from each team member?
As we consider these questions in our daily planning, the following two short videos and article present several helpful tips and tricks:
Roles in Cooperative Learning (short video)
Getting All Students to Participate (short video)
Edutopia article: Group Work That Works
