Collaborative learning is an educational approach where learners work together to solve problems and achieve common goals, emphasizing communication and social interaction. It enhances students' understanding, critical thinking, and self-esteem while fostering a supportive learning environment and promoting diversity. Effective collaboration is influenced by the quality of interactions and requires a balance of group goals and individual accountability.

1. Collaborating towards classroom
communication for effective learning

2. What is collaborative learning?
 An approach to teaching and learning that involves
groups of learners working together to solve a
problem, complete a task or create a product. It is
based on the idea that learning is naturally a social
act in which the participants talk among themselves.
It is through talk or communication that learning
occurs.

3. Some approaches to collaborative
learning:
 Learners understand the information and relate this new knowledge to a
framework of prior knowledge.
 Learning requires a challenge that opens the door for the learners to actively
engage with his/her peers and to process and synthesize information rather
than memorize and regurgitate it.
 Learners benefit when exposed to different points of view from people with
different backgrounds.
 Learning flourishes in a social environment where conversation between
learners takes place. During this time, the learner creates a framework and
meaning to this discourse.

4. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TOPIC
 THROUGH COLLABORATION STUDENTS TEND TO LEARN THROUGH DISCUSSION,
CLARIFICATION OF IDEAS, AND EVALUATION OF OTHERS.
 EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION TOWARDS PROMOTING CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION
FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING INVOLVES ESTABLISHMENT OF GROUP GOALS, AS WELL AS
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY.
 COLLABORATION IS INFLUENCED BY THE QUALITY OF INTERACTIONS.
 INTERACTIVITY AND NEGOTIATION ARE ALSO IMPORTANT IN COLLABORATING.
 HOWEVER, SUCCESSFUL INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION MUST ALSO EXIST.

5. Collaboration or Co-operate learning.
 It requires working towards a common goal
 A process meant to facilitate the accomplishment of a specific end product
through working together.
 E.g collective learning, peer teaching and learning or team learning.
 It aims at getting learners to take full responsibility for working together,
building knowledge together ,changing, evolving together and improving
together.
 It shifts the responsibility for learning to the learner in the role of
researcher and self-directed learning .

6. The benefits of collaborating
commutation in a classroom towards
learning

7. Social benefits
 Collaborative Learning helps to develop a social
support system for learners
 Collaborative Learning leads to build diversity
understanding among students/learners and
stuff
 Collaborative learning establishes a positive
atmosphere for modelling and practicing
cooperation, and
 Collaborative Learning develops communities

8. Psychological benefits
 Student centred instruction
increase students self esteem
 Cooperation reduces
anxiety and;
 Collaborative Learning
develops positive attitudes
towards teachers

9. Academic benefits
 Collaborative Learning promotes
critical thinking skills
 Involves students actively in the
learning process
 Classroom results are improved
 Models appropriate student problem
solving techniques
 Large lectures can be personalized
 Collaborative Learning is especially
helpful in motivation students in
specific curriculum