A collaborative classroom fosters teamwork among students, enhancing learning through shared knowledge and authority, mediated interactions, and diverse grouping. Teachers facilitate and model effective group dynamics, empowering students to take ownership of their learning. The advantages include improved problem-solving, critical thinking, social interactions, and communication skills.

1. Collaborative classroom
Characteristics and advantages
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2. Meaning:
 A collaborative classroom is a place where
students learn to work together. Also, the
purposes of these are to plan, maintain
and implement a successful teaching
program.
 Due to the diverse cultural and
educational needs, it has become an
important part of the classroom. Besides,
it’s based on the latest research in
education.
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3.  In simple words, Collaborative learning teaches students to
work together.
 Also, it helps to put into practice the teaching program. In
today’s world, students must learn to be collaborative.
 So, they can improve their knowledge and learning.
 Collaborative learning is an activity that puts emphasis on
group learning.
 It arranges the classroom seating’s into groups.
 The groups are provided many services so they can work in
collaboration.
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4. Elements of collaborative
classroom:
 Classroom plan
 Choosing a work surface
 Taking advantage of space
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5. Classroom plan:
 First of all, decide the activities you want
in your classroom. After that, consider the
possible layout that will ease those
activities. Also, keep in mind that the
students of a group can make eye contact
with each other. Teachers can choose any
seating options.
 The main aim of this is to emphasize topic
related chat among the group. And also is
to reduce space between the groups.
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6. Choosing work space:
 The possibilities of the work surface are
endless. They include papers, tablets, post-it;
stick a note, etc. and many more. Also,
changing surface is a helpful way to ease
learning. Besides, the group has to write
their rough ideas about what they have
learned? In addition, they have to copy it in
their notebooks or have to take a picture.
 The writing surface can be chalkboards,
desks, dry rub-out tables, etc. and several
other creative options.
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7. Taking advantage of books:
 change the layout of class if possible.
Also, if your school campus has a larger
space then teaches students outside for a
change. You can also cover windows with
whiteboards for students to be creative.
Try to make the class more close to
nature.
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8. Characteristics of collaborative
classroom:
1. Shared knowledge among teachers and
students:
The teacher has vital knowledge about
content, skills, and instruction, and still
provides that information to students.
However, collaborative teachers also
value and build upon the knowledge,
personal experiences, language,
strategies, and culture that students
bring to the learning situation.
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9. 2. Shared authority among teachers and
students:
In collaborative classrooms, teachers
share authority with students in very specific
ways. In most traditional classrooms, the
teacher is largely, if not exclusively,
responsible for setting goals, designing
learning tasks, and assessing what is
learned.
Collaborative teachers differ in that they
invite students to set specific goals within the
framework of what is being taught,
provide options for activities and
assignments that capture different student
interests and goals, and encourage students
to assess what they learn.
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10. Suppose, for example, the students have just read a chapter
on colonial America and are required to prepare a product
on the topic.
While a more traditional teacher might ask all students to
write a ten-page essay, the collaborative teacher might
ask students to define the product themselves. Some
could plan a videotape; some could dramatize events in
colonial America; others could investigate original
sources that support or do not support the textbook
chapter and draw comparisons among them; and some
could write a ten-page paper.
The point here is twofold: (1) students have opportunities
to ask and investigate questions of personal interest, and
(2) they have a voice in the decision-making process.
These opportunities are essential for both self-regulated
learning and motivation.
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11. 3. Teachers as mediators:
As knowledge and authority are shared among teachers
and students, the role of the teacher increasingly
emphasizes mediated learning.
Successful mediation helps students connect new
information to their experiences and to learning in other
areas, helps students figure out what to do when they are
stumped, and helps them learn how to learn.
Above all, the teacher as mediator adjusts the level of
information and support so as to maximize the ability to
take responsibility for learning.
This characteristic of collaborative classrooms is so
important, we devote a whole section to it below.
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12. 4. Grouping of students:
In collaborative classrooms where students are
engaged in a thinking curriculum, everyone learns
from everyone else, and no student is deprived of this
opportunity for making contributions and
appreciating the contributions of others.
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13. Thus, shared knowledge and authority, mediated
learning, and heterogeneous groups of students are
essential characteristics of collaborative classrooms.
These characteristics, which are elaborated
above, necessitate new roles for teachers and students
that lead to interactions different from those in more
traditional classrooms.
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14. Role of teachers in collaborative
classroom:
1. Facilitator facilitating:
 creating rich environments
 activities for linking new information to
prior knowledge
 Opportunities for collaborative work
 problem solving
 offering multiplicity of authentic
learning tasks.
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15. Role of teachers in collaborative
classroom:
1. Facilitator facilitating: another way to
facilitate is
 to establish classrooms with diverse and
flexible social structures
 influencing group attitudes
 roles such as team leader, encourager,
reteller, recorder and spokesperson
 to facilitate high quality group interaction,
teachers may need to teach and students
may need to practice, rules and functions
for group interaction.
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16. Role of teachers in collaborative
classroom:
2. Model:
 serves to share with students not only what one is
thinking about the content to be learned, but also
the process of communication and collaborative
learning.
 it may involve thinking aloud or demonstrating.
 teachers may share their thinking about the various
roles, rules, and relationships in collaborative
classrooms.
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17. Role of teachers in collaborative
classroom:
2. Model:
 A teacher might model what he or she thinks about
such questions as how to manage the group's time
or how to achieve consensus.
 Similarly, showing students how to think through
tough group situations and problems of
communication is as invaluable as modeling how to
plan an approach to an academic problem,
monitoring its progress, and assessing what was
learned.
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18. Role of teachers in collaborative
classroom:
3. Coach:
 Coaching involves giving hints/cues, providing
feedback, redirecting students’ efforts and helping
them use a strategy.
 a major principle of coaching is to provide the
right amount of help when students need it neither
too much nor too little so that students retain as
much responsibility as possible for their own
learning.
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19. Advantages of collaborative
classroom:
1. Enhance problem-solving skills- sharing and re-evaluate
their views and come to conclusions.
2. Inspires critical thinking- interpretation of ideas and
assessment of other student’s thoughts and views.
3. improves social interactions and supports diversity-
different groups to exchange ideas
4. Aid the development of self-management skills- good
decision maker
5. Development of oral communication skills- receiving
feedback and sharing
6. Fosters the development of interpersonal relationships- how
to relate with one another
7. helps in assessment
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