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.
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.
