Thinking Together: Collaborative Learning in the Classroom Facilitator: Dr Aziza Ellozy Director, Center for Learning and Teaching

Workshop goals To provide you with some starting ideas on how to incorporate collaborative learning (CL) into your classrooms To introduce examples of active learning/ student – centered teaching strategies To discuss possible adaptations in your classrooms.

“Thinking Together: Collaborative Learning in the Classroom” The video you are about to see shows three of Harvard University’s science faculty members experimenting with “ Collaborative Learning”. As one of the presenters in the video says, the goal is to try to “involve students in the process of teaching”. the goal is to try to “involve students in the process of teaching”.

How can YOU adapt CL to your needs ? Modified Minute Paper Think-Pair-ShareRoundtable/Brainstorming Problem Solving Discovery Method

Group Activity Assessing the integration of collaborative learning in your class