Collaboration

Collaboration

Collaboration means working together and also means sharing ideas instead of keeping it to his/her self.

It also means if you have a device and you are told to share it with a group you have to share it instead of telling them that they need to wait for after their turn.

Collaboration also means that you can't hog the screen and instead of you typing yourself take turns and let the rest of the group type instead- don't hog the screen or say that it's your turn now so the other person can't have a turn. Collaboration is also when a new person asks you how to do something don't say ask someone else say "ill be with you in a minute" or say "ok ill help you."

Johanna's Collaboration Learning Story - July 2015

Learner: Johanna      Learning Coach:   DWilkes      Date: 20-07-15

Learning Area: Key Competencies (Collaboration)

Learning Observed

On our first day back in Term 3 we had a super day of “Collaboration” immersion activities.  While the learners worked on the Collaboration Challenge in mixed ability, mixed year level groups they collaborated on a variety of tasks which encouraged discussion, problem solving, perseverance and teamwork.  It was great to observe Johanna as she was very engaged in the tasks, demonstrating patience, sharing and teaching others.  I noticed that she took a lead both in supporting our new learner Daniel and in a variety of other challenges like writing the acrostic and putting the evidence in Pic Collage.

Evidence of learning

Acrostic writing challenge                                   Pic Collage challenge

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Johanna quietly and  enthusiastically embraced the challenge demonstrating collaboration strategies such as asking questions and making decisions together.  This activity challenged her and her team to develop their problem solving skills (Thinking).  Johanna definitely related well to others and managed herself to maximise their collective learning.

Next Learning Steps

grow her capacity for collaboration by working with learners and practicing reflective listening use a new digital tool like Storybird to write a collaborative story taking her time to explain her ideas to others in a loud clear voice and taking think time after a question is posed

Johanna's Maths Learning Story

Learner: Johanna    Learning Coach:  T.Dillner          Date: 2.7.15

Learning Area: Mathematics - Probability

Learning Observed

Recently in Mrs Dillner’s Maths group, we have been learning about Probability and Chance. We were talking about the probability of random events like flipping a coin, rolling a dice or using a spinner. Johanna chose to work with Aleena to find out the probability of rolling numbers on a dice. They had to roll a dice 50 times and record the number of times each digit was rolled. Johanna and Aleena correctly used the provided template to record their answers and then worked together to analyse which number was rolled the most and why. They were able to outline their thoughts about this and share them with each other and the group working next to them.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Johanna and Aleena worked collaboratively to allocate roles of recording and rolling the dice. They thought and reasoned together after they completed 50 rolls (Participating and Contributing). Johanna and Aleena were able to connect their prior learning about Probability to make their analysis more accurate and formal (Thinking). Both girls showed they were capable of completing a basic Probability task and need to apply this knowledge to more complex learning in the future.

Next Learning Steps

Self-direct another Probability based activity that has real world implications. Create a digital version of this learning to upload to personal blog or share with learners from another Maths group.