collaborative cultures. learning goals understand the difference between a cooperative or...

Collaborative Cultures

Learning Goals

Understand the difference between a cooperative or collaborative learning stance

Appreciate the value of discourseDevelop norms for a collaborative learning

culture

Think about your last PLC experience. Was it a cooperative or a collaborative experience?

Take 5 minutes to discuss the difference between a cooperative vs collaborative learning stance.

Lucy West Video - Developing Collaborative

Habits of Mind

http://resources.curriculum.org/secretariat/leaders/lucy.html

Take a moment to think about yourself as a learner.

• What qualities or strengths do you have?• Which of these qualities enhance collaborative

learning and why?

Turn and Talk to your partner to share your thinking.

Quote Activity

There are five quotes taken from the articles citied earlier. Select a quote that resonates with you. As a group discuss how can we take these challenges and turn them into opportunities. Share your opportunities with the large group.

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Resources

• Collaborative Learning Cultures: Putting Promise into Practice; Ontario Leadership Strategy, Bulletin #3, Spring 2010

• Courageous Conversations; Ontario Leadership Strategy, Bulletin #2, Winter 2009/10

• Leading Deep Conversations in Collaborative Inquiry Groups; Tamara Holmlund Nelson, Angie Devel, David Slavit and Anne Kennedy, The Clearing House, 83: 175-179, 2010

(no permission to copy – great article)