On Day 15, join Dr. Fisher in learning about a new collaborative learning strategy to use with your students, in which each student contributes to the conversation.
The Collaborative Poster learning experience is another way of holding students accountable for the conversations they have with their peers.
CLASSROOM TASK: COLLABORATIVE POSTER
Introduce Collaborative Poster to your students. Give each group of students, created with the Alternate Ranking method, a large sheet of paper and give each student a marker, assigning them the color that you want them to use. Assign the task and then survey the room, encouraging students to clarify their thinking.
Reflect on this new instructional activity and how it helped make students accountable for their conversations.
This journal can be used to reflect on what you have learned as you develop strategies for engaging your students in collaborative conversations.
In a collaborative learning experience, students are not working independently of each other. They use academic language and they interact with one another as they learn.