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.
<in the speaker’s notes>
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)