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As mentioned in
Sharing Our Toys
, “One goal of collaborative learning is also to help
people learn to work together successfully on substantive issues” (Bruffee, 1995, pg. 16). At its
very core, collaborative learning seeks to have learners work together in a successful manner
on meaningful tasks. So, of course by utilizing collaborative activities, a community of successful
learners is sure to arise. I believe that one of the most important parts of teaching stems from
creating a meaningful learning environment. Without that, it would be difficult to then ask for
students to produce their best work. By establishing that trust, then a community can form. From
there, with practices like collaborative activities, students can learn to trust one another and
build themselves and one another up in their learning.
There are many strengths when it comes to a collaborative approach to learning. I
believe one of the biggest strengths of it that I like to see within my own classroom is being able
to give students more autonomy. A large part of collaborative learning practices puts more
emphasis on students making decisions for learning, being teachers themselves, and creating
connections. There are all elements of authentic learning being an autonomous learner.
Creating a classroom where students are also the leaders is a great way to encourage learning
from one another and hopefully contribute to creating strong leaders outside of the classroom.
Some challenges that I have encountered in implementing collaborative learning,
especially within this main year, is that my students are behind both academically and
emotionally. What I mean by this is a majority of my students are not on grade level for ELA.
Along with that, their emotional maturity is not matching their age as it has in years past. I do
believe this is a continued run off from the effects of covid, but it is a difficult thing to manage in
live time. These two things can make it difficult for something like collaborative learning because
oftentimes students are not on the same page with one another, not on the same page with
where they need to be for the lesson that needs to be taught, or simply do not retain the
information. There have been many instances where we go through something, like relearning
about subjects and predicates, and a week later they have no knowledge of what they are. This
may just be a challenge in general that I could work around while still utilizing collaborative
learning, but that is just not something I am quite sure how to do.
Reference
Bruffee, K. A. (1995). Sharing our toys:
cooperative learning versus collaborative learning
.
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
,
27
(1), 12–18.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.1995.9937722
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