Collaborative Inquiry

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Collaborative Inquiry
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Learning

• What does it mean to be coached and carefully
  guided in your learning?
• Why does research show that you learn best when
  you are actively manipulating the materials
  through making inferences and then generalizing
  from those inferences?

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Key Questions

• How do you engage yourself in all levels of
  critical thinking, from recall to knowledge and
  evaluation?
• How should you pursue understanding the material
  with mutual respect and civility and be mindful
  of others dignity?
• Why should you learn to be persuaded by
  arguments/evidence that are more powerful than
  your own and to change your mind in light of
  fresh insights?

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Expectations!

• You are expected to bring questions for
  discussions
• You should read the material (online, text)
• You are expected to exchange responses and
  collaborate in search of understanding of
  material.
• (This technique will ask you to gain a deeper
  understanding of the answers to the questions
  raised.)

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Method

• In our class we will use activities such as
  Socratic Seminars, online discussions,
  presentations, small group learning,
  collaborative inquiry, and philosophical chairs
  that will help you achieve a higher level of
  thinking.

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Why and How?

• Why Collaborative Learning Groups?
• What is the process of learning, the how as
  well as the what of learning?

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Why and How?

• Teacher will only be your guide, encouraging each
  of you to share your ideas and explore and
  respect the ideas of others.
• The student groups that you will be apart of will
  constantly prove and define and re-define until
  the expression of ideas is precise and clear.
• The group task may have each of you share
  completed assignments or notes, as well as work
  together to brainstorm and problem solve.

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What you will experience?

• Here is what you will experience in this class as
  a part of a collaborative learning group
• Why should there be no fixed way to select your
  group?
• Why will it depend on the class and the
  assignment?
• The group may be teacher determined,
  self-selected, spatial, or randomly selected
  groups.

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Benefits

• Why do people shy away from groups and are so
  reluctant to share their work?

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Benefits

• It is a natural tendency for you to start by
  shying away from groups and be reluctant to share
  your work.
• Our class will start by doing non-threatening
  activities and gradually increase the task
  demands and duration.
• Be sure that you follow group etiquette,
  stereotyping and group dynamics as a student
  before you begin work.

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Benefits

• What are the benefits to working in collaborative
  groups?

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Benefits

• What are the benefits to working in collaborative
  groups?
• No one knows everything.
• Teachers expect analysis, synthesis, and
  evaluation of subject matter, which is the stuff
  of collaborative groups.
• As a student you will move further faster and
  remember more.
• Learning with other people is more fun than
  studying alone.

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Input

• Input on Collaborative Groups
• Ongoing process
• After completing a group activity
• Write about and discuss
• What went well in your group
• What needs to improve for the next time.

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Tips and Tricks

• Here are some simple tips and tricks to avoiding
  problems when working with your group
• Carefully read the instructions and simple
  directions before you do a group assignment
• The teacher will establish a specific route to
  get help you get input from other groups
• Be in class and talk to each other frequently.
• You will get to have input with your group and
  with other groups.

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Tips and Tricks

• Here are some simple tips and tricks to avoiding
  problems when working with your group
• Remember that, if done right, the group
  atmosphere is conducive to sharing ideas
• There will be a reasonable time limit. It will
  always seem that you have too little time to get
  your work done. That makes it imperative that you
  get organized and started right away, everyday.

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Fun

• A fun learning environment
• it takes time and practice to learn to work
  effectively in collaborative learning groups.
• What are my questions or concerns about the role
  of collaboration in ATA?
• This information is based on the Avid teaching
  and learning strategies

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Philosophical Chairs

• Know the Key Question
• Argue the merits of the question, those of you
  who think yes it is unfair, sit on the left side
  of the horseshoe, those who are undecided, sit in
  the middle, those who think no it is fair, sit on
  the right side of the horseshoe.
• You will have the opportunity to move as you
  change your mind.
• Teacher or Student moderators job is to make
  sure that everyone has the chance to speak.
• To get full credit on this exercise you must
  speak at least two times.

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Encountering Inquiry

• Socratic Seminars
• These seminars will develop habits of
  thoughtfulness and analysis thorough close and
  collaborative questions of the meaning of a text,
  a case or reading, or a presentation.
• Each of you will be asked to demonstrate careful
  thinking and self-expression.

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Encountering Inquiry

• Socratic Seminars
• Your goal is to search for and weigh evidence and
  explore differing views.
• Your teacher or ,if you are the leader of the
  seminar, is expected not to guide the other
  students to a specific goal or conclusion but to
  lead them to discover their own truth or
  interpretation of the material.

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Small group Learning

• These small groups are places that the each of
  you are expected to
• Ask, explore, and answer questions, to welcome
  better listeners, thinkers, readers and writers,
  and discover ideas and remember them because you
  are actively involved in the subject matter.

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Philosophical Chairs

• Rules
• Time limit for the discussion is 15 minutes
• Summarize the previous speaker before you present
  your arguments
• Be ready to write about the pivotal points of the
  discussion
• If you have not read and taken notes please go to
  the back of the room . When you have taken the
  notes then you may join the group. When you want
  to comment go to the hot seat, speak and go
  back to back part of the room.
• Write a metacognitive reflection responding to
  the questions that we read and discussed.
  Metacognition means thinking about your thinking.

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Philosophical Chairs

• Rules
• Read the material
• Listen to the person who is speaking
• Understand the persons point of view
• Contribute your own thoughts, offering our
  reasons as succinctly as possible
• Respond to statements only, not to the
  personality of the person giving it

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Philosophical Chairs

• Rules
• Change our mind about he statement as new
  information or reasoning is presented
• Move to the opposite side or to the undecided
  chairs as your thinking grows and changes
• Support the mediator in maintaining order and
  helping the discussion to progress
• Reflect on the experience via the closing
  activity assignment.

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Encountering Inquiry

• Socratic Seminars
• These seminars will develop habits of
  thoughtfulness and analysis thorough close and
  collaborative questions of the meaning of a text,
  a case or reading, or a presentation.
• Each of you will be asked to demonstrate careful
  thinking and self-expression.

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Encountering Inquiry

• Socratic Seminars
• Your goal is to search for and weigh evidence and
  explore differing views.
• Your teacher or ,if you are the leader of the
  seminar, is expected not to guide the other
  students to a specific goal or conclusion but to
  lead them to discover their own truth or
  interpretation of the material.

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Small group Learning

• These small groups are places that the each of
  you are expected to
• Ask, explore, and answer questions, to welcome
  better listeners, thinkers, readers and writers,
  and discover ideas and remember them because you
  are actively involved in the subject matter.

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Small group Learning

• What does it mean to be coached and carefully
  guided in your learning?
• Why does research show that you learn best when
  you are actively manipulating the materials
  through making inferences and then generalizing
  from those inferences?

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Goals

• Positive interdependence
• Individual accountability
• Heterogeneous exchange of ideas
• Shared leadership
• Shared responsibility for one another

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Goals

• Social skills necessary for task completion
• Teacher observes and intervenes
• Group process their effectiveness.
• All of the activities in our class should
  encourage collaboration.  

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Fun

• A fun learning environment
• it takes time and practice to learn to work
  effectively in collaborative learning groups.
• What are my questions or concerns about the role
  of collaboration in ATA?
• This information is based on the Avid teaching
  and learning strategies

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