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Fostering Students’ Engagement with Each Other Using Collaboration Protocols

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Learning Lab

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Session description

Not all group tasks ensure authentic collaboration. In this session, we’ll discuss how to maximize the benefits and minimize the drawbacks of group work. We’ll distinguish two types of collaboration — collaborative projects and collaborative inquiry — and experience protocols that help students succeed at both.

Outline

1) If collaboration is supposed to be so great, why do so many students end up hating it? (40 minutes)
Participants will watch a funny video about group work, respond to writing and drawing prompts about their own experiences with group work, and share in small groups, looking for connections, distinctions, and absences among their responses.

2) What conditions support collaboration that actually is great? (30 minutes)
Participants will engage in a protocol they can use with their students that helps them articulate values-based commitments for working in a group.

3) How can we create the conditions for our students to have great collaborations? (20 minutes)
I will describe 2 key conditions for effective collaboration and I'll distinguish between collaborative projects and collaborative inquiry. We'll debrief how the protocol we used in part 2 supports collaborative projects, and how the protocol we used in part 1 supports collaborative inquiry.

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Supporting research

Lauren Porosoff, Teach for Authentic Engagement

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Presenters

Lauren Porosoff

Consultant

The Teacher Nerd

Session specifications

Topic:

Student Engagement and Agency

TLP:

Yes

Grade level:

6-12

Audience:

Curriculum Designer/Director, Teacher Development, Teacher

Attendee devices:

Devices not needed

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

Pen and paper (ideal) or devices for writing and drawing

TLPs:

Cultivate Belonging