Team Learning
On this page, you can learn more about Team Learning and Team Teaching.
When the multicultural and multisectoral teams of students are guided by multicultural and multisectoral teams of teachers, the objective is to form a learning community. That is the base of Team Learning. To do so everybody in the team will need skills of dialogue. Teachers are part of the learning communities, practicing those skills with the students. Dialogical competence is something you can practice and learn.
On this page, you can also find some practices to use to build the dialogical learning community.
Team Teaching supporting Team Learning - Start by creating a Learning Community
Some principles of Team Learning
Common Learning tasks
Common commitment
Mutual trust
Peer evaluation and development
Collective thinking and working together
Learning of entities (knowledge and skills) and deep understanding
The interaction between learner and the teacher as a coach asking questions, but not giving direct answers
Solidarity
Dialogical approach and innovation
Dialogue as a tool for guiding teams and promoting collaborative learning
Learn more with the dialogical method cards
The dialogical method cards are tools to be used when developing dialogical competence and when learning and creating knowledge through dialogue. The method cards can be used in various ways in diverse situations and contexts where people are engaged in dialogue or learning or creating knowledge collaboratively. With the help of the methods, collaborative thinking and work will become more successful. (Aarnio, 2012.)
You can also download Dialogical method cards in different languages
