Collaborative Learning

Throughout this course, you will explore practical strategies for planning and managing collaborative activities across a range of classroom settings and year levels. You will examine the role of the teacher as facilitator, discover ways to foster positive group interactions, and learn how to assess both individual and group learning outcomes effectively.

By the end of the course, you will have a toolkit of evidence-informed approaches that can be adapted to your own teaching context. 

Lesson One: Introduction

The first lesson provides an overview of collaborative learning, covering how it can enhance learning outcomes and the common challenges faced when applying this approach.

Lesson Two: How Collaborative Tasks Improve Learning

This lesson explores the underlying learning mechanisms that make collaborative learning a beneficial approach, deepening teachers’ understanding of how to implement collaborative learning in the classroom.

Lesson Three: Evidence-based Approaches to Collaborative Learning

Lesson Three offers expert advice and an analysis of what the evidence base for collaborative learning indicates is best practice in the classroom.

Lesson Four: Teaching with Collaborative Learning

In this lesson, we explore evidence-based methods to plan and implement collaborative learning in real-world classroom settings.

Lesson Five: Resources

This lesson includes videos, articles, web links, and suggested further reading that teachers can use to enhance their understanding of collaborative learning.