![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To seat students in pairs or groups and ask them to work together is nothing more than unstructured group work and gives no guarantee that each individual child will participate or that lower achieving students in particular will contribute. Too often, group work is mistaken for collaborative learning. The fundamental difference between the two lies in the interdependence, personal accountability and evenly-weighted participation levels that form truly ‘collaborative’ collaborative learning. Structured approaches and well-designed tasks Although dialoguing can be a powerful tool for building the foundations of reading and writing (language development, comprehension, information retention etc.), there are some clear pitfalls that must be avoided if we are to get it right. Collaborative Learning is a cost-effective and evidence-informed approach for developing students’ language in a way that furthers them in their reading and writing, but only when it is done well.
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