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