Collaboration At It's Best!

Deeper Learning: A collaborative classroom is key to help set students up for their future. Students develop the skills to listen and ask effective questions with exercises designed to scaffold deep, meaningful collaboration. Here are some students working collaboratively in 'The Hub' engaged in a high-level tasks, discussing, problem solving, possibly debating an issue, making shared decisions, and designing a product that demonstrates their deeper learning.

As teachers, we’d love to see this right out of the gate, but this sort of sophisticated teamwork takes scaffolding. It won’t just happen by placing students together with a piece of provocative text or an engaging task. So how do we begin this scaffolded journey in The Hub?

• Establish group agreements

• Teach and listen

• Teach the art of asking good questions

• Teach how to negotiate

• Model what we expect

• Group brain power
• Student Voice