Groupwork and Collaborative Learning
As teachers we need to teach our students how to work with others in effective ways. Planning for group-based learning should be embedded within our curriculum planning. (see also Cooperative Learning in Learning Frameworks)
Guidelines
- Collaborative learning (VELS)
- Collaborative learning strategies (VELS)
Strategies
- Collaborative Cloze: the strategy (DEECD)
- Working in small groups (My Read / Strategies for teaching reading in the middle years)
- Intellectual Quality - 27 Cooperative Strategies (Education Queensland)
- Teaching Strategies: Group Work (Flinders University / basic concepts)
- Classroom Structures that Encourage Student Participation (Bergquist&Phillips, 1975)
- 10 Tips for Cooperative Learning
- Cooperative Learning / Cooperative Grading (Teaching Resource Center / University of Virginia)
- Tools and Strategies (including many collaborative activities) (Country Areas Program, NSW Government)
Websites
- Working with Groups (TAFE NSW)
- Small Group Discussion (Tasmanian Government)
- Group work for senior students: some guidelines (Tasmanian Government)
- Key Learning Processes / Collaborating (Education Tasmania)
- Three good reasons for group learning (tertiary students may be useful)
- Enhancing Experiences of Group Work (University of Technology Sydney)
- Schools as collaborative learning communities
- Facilitating Cooperative Groups at the Computer
- Cantwell, R. H.&Andrews, B. (1998). Individual differences and secondary school students' feelings towards group work. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, 1998. Accessed October, 2008).
Practice in Schools
- Eustace, K., Lee, M., Fellows, G., Bytheway, A.&Irving, L. (2004). The application of massively multiplayer online role playing games to collaborative learning and teaching practice in schools. In R. Atkinson, C. McBeath, D. Jonas-Dwyer&R. Phillips (Eds), Beyond the comfort zone: Proceedings of the 21st ASCILITE Conference (p. 263). Perth, 5-8 December.
Literature
- Brady, Laurie (2006). Collaborative learning in action. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Pearson, Prentice Hall.