This artifact illustrates the benefits and importance of collaborative learning. I believe this is an extremely important resource to keep in mind because of my own personal teaching style leans towards a more collaborative setting. At the top of the page there is also a link to a website that supplies an ample amount of collaborative lessons and classroom activities. Collaboration will be a center piece component of my instruction as a future educator. To promote all learning styles and modalities, encourage independence, foster team work, and autonomy then collaboration needs to be taking place in some form within the classroom setting.
Collaboration is a topic in which research has taken place throughout my entire span of the Keuka College Education program. There a variety of methods, activities, and strategies in which collaboration can take place. What the research has revealed to me is that it is good to try new things frequently, but only to the affect that your students are comfortable and not overwhelmed by too many activities each day or week. You need to allow students to adjust, learn processes, grow comfortable, then consider new strategies once one is learned. The education program here at Keuka has also revealed that collaboration allows students to reach those higher level thinking processes, reasoning, and productivity. In effect, collaboration enhances learning, gets more out of your students, and places more accountability and responsibility on their shoulders. The use of collaborative activities should also be used interchangeably with other forms of instruction such as independent or teacher centered; too much of a good thing is bad. My research throughout my development as an educator has revealed that you need to give variation, choice, and a variety of different learning opportunities. Through this differentiation, collaboration can be seen as a privilege and opportunity to present and learn knowledge in a fun and exciting way.
What I learned through the creation of this artifact and the overall concept of cooperative learning is that its one of the most integral components of the education process. I also learned how collaboration can reach different level's of Blooms Taxonomy and allow students to think deeper and more complexly than on their own. Collaboration introduces new perspectives, different individual attributes, and different means of learning, expression, and modalities. It was also important to learn about the innumerable activities and processes students can participate in to create those collaborative situations. Having so many options can keep you and your clash fresh, fun, and entertaining; if you can give students a mysterious or predictive teaser each day you have them engaged and willing to learn. I believe this artifact is extremely useful and I will always try to incorporate as much collaboration as I can to my lessons every day.
Collaboration is a topic in which research has taken place throughout my entire span of the Keuka College Education program. There a variety of methods, activities, and strategies in which collaboration can take place. What the research has revealed to me is that it is good to try new things frequently, but only to the affect that your students are comfortable and not overwhelmed by too many activities each day or week. You need to allow students to adjust, learn processes, grow comfortable, then consider new strategies once one is learned. The education program here at Keuka has also revealed that collaboration allows students to reach those higher level thinking processes, reasoning, and productivity. In effect, collaboration enhances learning, gets more out of your students, and places more accountability and responsibility on their shoulders. The use of collaborative activities should also be used interchangeably with other forms of instruction such as independent or teacher centered; too much of a good thing is bad. My research throughout my development as an educator has revealed that you need to give variation, choice, and a variety of different learning opportunities. Through this differentiation, collaboration can be seen as a privilege and opportunity to present and learn knowledge in a fun and exciting way.
What I learned through the creation of this artifact and the overall concept of cooperative learning is that its one of the most integral components of the education process. I also learned how collaboration can reach different level's of Blooms Taxonomy and allow students to think deeper and more complexly than on their own. Collaboration introduces new perspectives, different individual attributes, and different means of learning, expression, and modalities. It was also important to learn about the innumerable activities and processes students can participate in to create those collaborative situations. Having so many options can keep you and your clash fresh, fun, and entertaining; if you can give students a mysterious or predictive teaser each day you have them engaged and willing to learn. I believe this artifact is extremely useful and I will always try to incorporate as much collaboration as I can to my lessons every day.