Collaboration

Students interact in meaningful ways through conversation, or participation in collaborative structures. The educator serves as facilitator and a collectivist or communal approach is used.

Equity Frame

White supremacy culture is furthered by individualism and power hoarding - a focus on competition with individual winners and losers.

Culturally responsive teaching builds classroom culture that is communal, where interdependence is centered.

Methodologies

Complex Instruction

Students work in linguistically, racially, socially heterogeneous groups to learn and problem solve together. Students see each member as capable, and therefore as resources for each other. There is equal-status participation in thinking and learning.

Multiple Abilities

The Multiple Abilities Strategy is a strategy that teachers use to launch a lesson or task that involves collaborative groupwork.

Participation Quiz

A Participation Quiz /Group Feedback is a strategy to help establish or reinforce norms for group work in a cooperative environment.

Class Norms

Class norms are a set of statements of value or behavior that support active and equitable participation in the classroom.

Group Roles

Collaborative groups benefit from clear group roles for their members. Here are some sample role cards that can be used with different grades.

Math Talks

Math Talks are a powerful teaching tool. They are a teacher-led student-centered technique for building math thinking and discourse.

Authentic Academic Conversations

Give one, get one

See Give One, Get One- a structure for accountable talk in the context of academic discourse. Observe teacher moves for strategic grouping, accountable talk, and setting up students for a successful share-out.

Structured Language Protocol (board game)

Students engage in accountable language practice through a board game. Ariana puts structures in place for students to practice language collaboratively and hold each other accountable.

Positive Interdependence

Students recognize that their individual success is linked to the success of every other member of their group/class, and the structure of the task requires unique contributions from each student.

Structuring Collaboration for Student Success

Part of Edutopia's 5 Keys to Rigorous PBL video series, this video focuses on how to organize your learning environment to support student collaboration.

A Resource Bank of Strategies for Supporting Group Work

A Spectrum of Procedures and Protocols

Tools for Supporting Collaboration - NTN Team Collaboration Checklist

Technology that Enables Collaboration

Feedback

Use collaborative tools to share drafts of their work in order to give & receive feedback from peers, teachers, and other audiences beyond the classroom. (Google Docs, Slides, & Classroom)

Project Management

Leverage collaborative technologies to contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal. (Google Keep, Sheets, Docs, Slides, Drawing, Forms, Calendar, Classroom)

Problem Solving

Explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions. (KQED Learn, Google Suite)

Google for Collaboration

Visit SFUSD's facilitating group work page to learn how to use google tools to support collaboration and group work.

Google for Feedback

Visit SFUSD's google for feedback page to learn more about how to use google tools to facilitate and provide feedback from peers and/or teachers.

Project Management

Digital Tools for Project Management in PBL & Design Thinking

Approved digital tools for SFUSD students that support collaboration and coordination on group projects.

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