PREPARED BY: MADULA, MARIA ELAINE C.

DATE: MAY 30, 2020

COURSE: BSED – ENGLISH PROF.: DR. PLACENTE
SUBJECT: EL 105 (Language Learning Materials Development)

SKILLS INTEGRATION COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

TEACHING VS LEARNING

 John Amos Comenius, a 16th Century scholar; summarized the approach that teaching should
follow, “The main object is to find a method by which teachers teach less but learners learn
more,” proving that current problems have noble pedigrees.

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

 Collaborative learning in the ECDE level means children working together to accomplish a task or
to achieve certain goal.
 We humans, like many other animals, are social being. We are more successful of we use our
intelligence to work with other to achieve more. To be able to work collaboratively is a skill we
all need.

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

 Involvement
 Co-operation and teamwork
 Community responsibility

ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT LEARNING

 Learning is an active constructive process

 Learning depends on rich contexts
 Learners are diverse
 Leaning is inherently social

It is those of us who can solve problems while working with others who succeed. A successful
Scientist must be able to cooperate with other scientists, with technicians and with students. An
executive cooperate with other executives, salespersons, suppliers and superiors. (Dunne and Bennett,
1990).

Collaborative learning fosters the development of critical thinking through discussion, clarification or
ideas, and evaluation of others’ ideas.

APPROACHES

Collaborative Learning

 Co-operative learning
  Writing groups
 Learning communities
 Peer teaching
 Problem-based learning
 Discussion groups

In a teaching situation you are likely to face challenges such as:

 How to help the pupils to acquire more knowledge?

 How to make learning more interesting for the pupils?
 How to motivate the pupils?
 How to challenge the pupils so that they can perform better?

One way to overcome this is through collaborative learning.

Why use collaborative learning?

 Pupils learn qualities of humility, self-control, fair play, patience and leadership.
 Builds pupils’ confidence and character.
 Promote pupils learning and academic achievement.
 Enhance pupil satisfaction with their learning experience.
 Help pupils develop skills in oral communication.
 Develop pupils’ social skills.
 Promote pupil self-esteem.
 Increase pupil retention
 Develop a community of learners

TEACH / LEARN

 “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learn to collaborate and
improvise most effectively prevail.” –Charles Darwin
 “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still
each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw

Collaboration is important not just because it’s a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is
penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping
yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing
networked economy. – Don Tapscott

QUESTIONS: (Essay)
What is collaborative learning for you?
Why do teachers need to use collaborative learning in class?
What do you think are the challenges you may face in teaching situation?
Give some approaches for collaborative learning and explain how you are going to
implement them.
Explain the following:
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you
and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we
exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw