Sunday, September 20, 2009
When should students collaborate and when should they work alone?”
There is a time and place for working collaboratively and individually. Students can work together for any lesson, any project, any experiment, etc. It is up to the teacher to determine what is best for that specific situation. Teachers can have students start working individually and then switch to group work to collaborate ideas or they could work as a group and split up individually. There are also times when students will complete an entire task either collaboratively or individually. Important aspects to consider while planning are assessment and the goal of the lesson. It is difficult to assess the individuals’ understanding of the concept when they work collaboratively as well as how the individual can apply the knowledge being taught. If the goal of the lesson is for the individual student to apply a skill it may be best to have students work independently; however, if the goal of the lesson is for students to gain understanding of a more general topic then group work may be more appropriate. Both collaboration and individual work are useful and beneficial in the classroom but there is a time and place for both.
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