Collaborative Learning

Working together to solve problems and complete projects deepens students' learning and builds collaborative skills. Learn how to design activities to help develop these skills.

Adapting an Effective Math Collaboration Activity for Distance Learning
An instructional coach and math teacher who developed a powerful model for student collaboration have tweaked it for the pandemic.
Ashley Taplin
Using ‘Hexagonal Thinking’ to Deepen Classroom Conversations
A novel activity using little more than geometric shapes can help students examine complex problems and connect big ideas.
Sarah Gonser
Getting Set Up for Collaboration in Online PBL Units
Student collaboration is a hallmark of project-based learning, but it can be tricky to manage online. Here are some basic strategies for helping students work together.
Hedreich Nichols
22 Powerful Closure Activities
Quick activities that can be used to check for understanding or emphasize key information at the end of a lesson.
Todd Finley
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Making Teamwork More Intentional
When students are taught to listen to each other’s ideas, give regular feedback, and focus on strong communication, they become skilled collaborators.
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60-Second Strategy: Respond, Reflect, and Review
This simple activity helps students practice giving and receiving peer feedback—and gets them out of their desks.
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60-Second Strategy: Cooperative Learning Roles
Giving students randomly assigned roles in their group work helps ensure that they all participate.
How Students Can Learn From Judging a Book by Its Cover
A close collaborative analysis of the text and graphics on book covers makes for a powerful literacy activity.
Rose Reissman
How to Better Engage Students in Online Math Classes
Math teachers will likely need to shift teaching methods to help students thrive during distance learning. These ideas can start the process.
Meghan Laslocky
Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities
Six factors to consider in designing lessons to help increase student engagement behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively.
Nicolás Pino-James
A Strategy for Boosting Student Engagement in Math
A four-step approach to group work can get students talking and boost their mathematical and metacognitive thinking.
Ashley Taplin
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Starting Critical Thinking and Collaboration Early
Even the youngest students can collaborate productively to push each other’s learning through a protocol that introduces peer feedback.
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Learning on Their Feet
Vertical learning—a framework for high quality group work—showcases student thinking for everyone to see.
Designing a Public School From Scratch
On a mission to reimagine traditional schooling, a K–8 school in San Diego puts teachers and students at the center.
Nora Fleming
Student-Centered Learning: It Starts With the Teacher
Teachers encourage student-centered learning by allowing students to share in decisions, believing in their capacity to lead, and remembering how it feels to learn.
John McCarthy

Collaborative Learning

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Adapting an Effective Math Collaboration Activity for Distance Learning

Making Teamwork More Intentional