Dr. Z explores the world of collaborative learning in the classroom. The workshop attendees go through the whole process of collaborative learning as well as creating something at the end based upon their findings.

1. Dr. Leigh Zeitz
University of Northern Iowa
@zeitz
Drzreflects.com
Zeitz@uni.edu

2. Background
Wesley James Zeitz – Culinary Arts & Leisure/Restaurant

3. Background

4. Open Resource Google Doc
Creative Cookbook for Collaborative
Learning Resource page.
Tinyurl.com/CollabCookbook

5. Learning is . . .
 problem solving
 contextual
 changed behavior
 what happens in schools between 8:00 AM
and 3:15 PM
 the acquisition of knowledge or skills through
experience, practice, or study, or by being
taught.

6. Learning is Social

7. Meaningful learning is . . .
Contextualized

8. Learning is Collaborative
COLLABORATION
 Multiple workers
 Extend Self Through Others
 Shared Common Goals
 Work Independently
 Work Together
COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
 Multiple Collaborators
 Share Common Goals
 Allow Independent Work
 Integrate Individual Tasks
 Revision Tracking
 Allow Synchronous Work
 Playful or Engaging
The Whole is
LARGER than the
sum of the parts

9. Common Goals
Independent Work
Synchronous Work
Integrated Tasks
Engaging

10. What is Collaboration?
 More than unstructured Group Work
 Individuals join together as a team to achieve
a common goal.
 Each individual uses his/her strength to add to
the “mixing pot.”
 Success relies on effective communication
and interaction between members.
 Not all students will work well within teams

11. What Are the Benefits/Challenges?
 Discuss this with your
group.
 Select a scribe.
 Go to
tinyurl.com/CollabCookbook
so scribe can enter your
group’s opinions about
the benefits/challenges.

12. Collaboration Research
Benefits
 Promotes Student
Learning
 Can increase retention of
the material
 Increases student learning
satisfaction
 Builds oral communication
 Promotes inter-personal
relations and self esteem
Challenges
 Need to work on social
skills
 Organizing roles is not
simple
 Takes longer to organize
the groups to work on the
task.
 System for grading
 Multi-level grouping can
bother some students

13. Group Roles?
What Group Roles
do YOU Assign?
Think-Pair-Share

14. Roles for Collaborative Teams
Major Roles
 Facilitator
 Recorder
 Summarizer
 Presenter
Additional Roles
 Data Collector
 Checker
 Elaborator
 Encourager
 Materials Manager
 Timekeeper

15. Roles for Collaborative Research
Teams
Major Roles
 Facilitator
 Recorder
 Summarizer
 Presenter
Individual Roles
 Each does own
research
 Final project creation
jobs based upon
strengths

16. Problem Solving
Your 4-person team sailed on a ship that has now
sunk. You are in a 3-person row boat that is “taking
on water” because you have too many people.
One person must leave the boat, but who will it be?
As a group, discuss the situation and decide who
must “jump off.”

17. What Did You Learn?
 How did people act?
 Who took the leadership?
 Who wrote down the
discussion?
 Who did research if
necessary?
 What Roles did they fill?

18. How Do You Evaluate?
 What are the issues you encounter?
 Is it only one evaluation?
 How do you inform your students of what is
expected of them?
 Do you use a rubric?
Share your resources on our page.

19. Time to Share Your Work
Share what you have done/learned online
somehow.
Google Doc
Video
Interactive Tool
Post Your link on our Collaborative Page for
others to enjoy.

21. Live with Courage

22. Live with Courage
Teach with Vision

24. Dr. Z’s
Creative Cookbook
for
Collaborative
Communication
Dr. Leigh Zeitz
University of Northern
Iowa
zeitz@uni.edu
Blog: drzreflects.com
Twitter: @zeitz
Contact me if you have
questions or would like Dr.
Z to work with you and your
faculty.