This document discusses collaborative learning, which involves groups of students working together to solve problems or create products. Key benefits of collaborative learning include promoting interdependence, developing communication and leadership skills, and increasing accountability. There are various approaches to collaborative learning, including ensuring the work is active, challenging, and exposes learners to diverse viewpoints. Characteristics of effective collaborative learning include positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, and group processing where members discuss their effectiveness.

1. Collaborative
Learning
CHARLYN E. CAMPOSANO
Naagtan ES

2. Session Objectives:
Identify the features of collaborative learning
Design learning activities using collaborative
learning
 Gives importance to the positive impact of CL
in teaching-learning process

3. Group 1
List down 5 learning activities that can be done by group?
Group 2
List 5 words that are associated with collaborative learning?
Group 3
Draw an illustration that depicts collaborative learning?
Group Activity

5. Collaborative learning is an educational approach to teaching and
learning that involves groups of students working together to solve a
problem, complete a task, or create a product.
According to Gerlach, "Collaborative learning is based on the idea that
learning is a naturally social act in which the participants talk among
themselves (Gerlach, 1994). It is through the talk that learning
occurs."

6. Why Collaborate?

7. Key benefits:
1. Promotes interdependence
2. Encourages learners` responsibility for learning
3. Increases individual accountability as part of group
4. Reinforces learning for individuals through peer teaching
5. Develops communication skills, decision making and leadership
skills
6. Increases group cohesion
7. Gives opportunity for teachers to observe and assess learning
during the group activity

8. Approaches to Collaborative Learning
(Smith and MacGregor,1992)
• Learning is an active process
• Learning requires a challenge
• Learners benefit when exposed to diverse viewpoints
• Learning flourishes in a social environment
• Learners are challenged socially and emotionally

9. Collaborative Learning
“Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of
educational approaches involving joint intellectual effort by
students, or students and teachers together. Usually students
are working in groups of two or more, mutually searching for
understanding, solutions or meanings, or creating a product.
Collaborative learning activities vary widely, but most center on
students’ exploration or application of the course material, not
simply the teacher’s presentation or explication of it”.
Smith and McGregor (1992)

11. Characteristics
•Positive interdependence
•Individual accountability
•Face to face interaction
•Group Processing

12. Positive Interdependence
● Each group member's efforts are required and indispensable for group
success
● Each group member has a unique contribution to make to the joint effort
because of his or her resources and/or role and task responsibilities
● Sink or swim together!

13. Individual & Group Accountability
● Keeping the size of the group small.
● Giving an individual test to each student.
● Randomly examining students orally.
● Observing each group and recording the frequency with which each member-
contributes to the group's work.
● Assigning one student in each group the role of checker.
● Having students teach what they learned to someone else.

14. Face to Face Interaction
● Orally explaining how to solve problems
● Teaching one's knowledge to others
● Checking for understanding
● Discussing concepts being learned
● Connecting present with past learning

15. Group Processing
● Group members discuss how well they are achieving their goals and
maintaining effective working relationships
● Describe what member actions are helpful and not helpful
● Make decisions about what behaviors to continue or change

16. Successful Group Learning Requires:
•Careful composition of collaborative groups
•Use of meaningful, reciprocally interdependent tasks
•Delegate authority to teams to govern themselves (group
leader for example)
•Create a supportive physical environment
•Establishing mechanisms to drive continuous learning

17. Reflection Question:
Teacher Kathy has 20 learners, 5 of them are girls
and the rest are boys. How will you group them?
Why ?

18. Teaching vs. Learning
John Amos Comenius, a 16th Century scholar; summarized the approach that
teaching should follow,
“The main object is to find a method by which
teachers teach less but learners learn more.”

19. References:
What is collaborative learning? Retrieved from
http://archive.wceruw.org/cl1/cl/moreinfo/MI2A.htm
RA 10533 Retreived from
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2013/09/04/irr-republic-act-no-10533/
Kurt, S. (2020) Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding Retrieved
from
https://educationaltechnology.net/vygotskys-zone-of-proximal-
development-and-scaffolding/

20. Thank you