21CLD Learning Activity Rubrics Collaboration

21CLD Learning Activity RubricsCollaboration 2nd Workshop on Telecollaboration and Project-based Learning to Reorient Teacher Education towards EFA and ESD 2-4 October 2013, Holiday Inn, Bangkok, Thailand

Collaboration Integration of ideas into a coherent whole? Contributing individual expertise? Working together Making substantive decisions together? With whom? In what way? To what extent? Shared responsibility? Provide feedback? Exchange information?

Students are required to work in pairs or groups? Discuss an issue Work together Solve a problem Design/ Create a product • May be • within class or • outside class, schools, community, experts • Face-to-face or by using technology

Is this Working Together? A B Students do their work alone. • Pairs of students give each other feedback. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Is this Working Together? A B Each student creates his/her own story and sends it to the teacher for feedback. • Students use the Education Community to share their story drafts and give each other feedback. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Students have shared responsibility? • Collectively own the work and mutually responsible for its outcome

Is this Shared Responsibility? A B A student works with a peer in another country to develop a joint website. • A student interviews a peer in another country about the local weather. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Is this Shared Responsibility? A B Each student develops his/her own design for the proposed school garden. He/She is then requested to review another’s work and give feedback on how to improve the design. • Groups of students develop their own designs for the proposed school garden. They seek feedback from other groups to improve on the design. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Students make substantive decisions together? • Resolve important issues that will guide their work together, on any of the following:

Is this a substantive decision? A B Pairs of students are developing a presentation about climate change summarizing the material on the textbook, as instructed by the teacher. • Pairs of students are developing a presentation about climate change and must decide what causes to write about. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Is this a substantive decision? A B Student teams are conducting a research project and must decide on their own workplan and roles on the team. • Student teams assign roles to team members based on the list of roles and the workplan that the teacher provided. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Students’ work is interdependent? • When ALL students participate for the team to succeed – i.e. role of each member is essential in developing the final group product/ outcome • Two levels of accountability:

Is this interdependent? A B Group members work together to research about frogs. Each student then proceeds to conduct his own dissection and writes his own lab report. • Group members each research a different internal system of frogs. Students then work together to dissect a frog and write a lab report about the dissection, identifying frog parts and the systems to which they belong. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Is this interdependent? A B Students organize information that the team gathered on the history, culture, attractions, and accommodations of their local area. They present these through a tourist website that they design and develop together. • Students each create a webpage about the history, culture, attractions, or accommodations of their local area that will be linked to the class homepage. Option 1 A - Yes, B - No Option 2 A - No, B - Yes

Collaboration • Group activity – 5 minutes • go over the other “Yes”/”No” samples in the Guide • spend time to clarify definitions and samples

Work together f2f or via technology to share ideas and resources, may include external people Develop a common product, design, response; collectively own the work AND are mutually responsible for the outcome Negotiate on and resolve important issues that fundamentally shape the content, process, or product of their work All students must participate for the group to produce an interdependent product or an outcome; each member’s role and contribution are essential to produce a “coherent whole”

Sample Case 1Olympics Site Selection • Not observed • Required to work in pairs or groups • #2 AND students have shared responsibility • #3 AND students make substantive decisions together • #4 AND students’ work is interdependent

Sample Case 2House on Mango Street • Not observed • Required to work in pairs or groups • #2 AND students have shared responsibility • #3 AND students make substantive decisions together • #4 AND students’ work is interdependent

Suggested improvements • House on Mango Street • Type your group’s suggestion on the Google spreadsheet

Project Improvements • Review your own project to see how it scores against the “Collaboration” rubric. • Discuss ways to improve the project design to increase your ratings on the “Real-world Problem Solving and Innovation” and “Collaboration” rubrics.

End of Session Mel Tanmm.tan@unesco.org

21CLD Learning Activity Rubrics Collaboration