Building a Collaborative Culture Beyond Classrooms
Course details
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”, Isaak Newton
The potential of collaborative learning environments has been highlighted from the educators as a dynamic pedagogical strategy, especially after the pandemic isolation. A diverse array of students’ outcomes, such as 21st century skills development, are influenced by the classroom experience when shifting from traditional lectures to group collaborative projects.
However, the ability to work collaboratively with others is not only narrowed into the classroom walls. It is becoming an essential component of contemporary school reform. Common goals, joint work, and interdependence build a community-oriented cultures, partnerships and a school vision.
The short online course “Building a Collaborative Culture Beyond Classroom” is focused not only in sharing good examples and best practices of collaborative activities into the classroom and between students but it also aims to outline several forms of collaboration among educators that can empower them to shift from isolation and private mode of autonomy to an effective collective work.
Duration and workload
Start date: 17 April 2023
End date: 3 May 2023
Duration: 2 weeks and 3 days
Workload: 8-10 hours in total
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Target audience
Teachers from all school levels and subjects as well as other school staff (librarians, school leaders, etc.) who are interested in building a collaborative culture beyond classroom walls.
Learning objectives
The course participants will:
- Familiarize themselves with the theoretical background and the practical techniques of collaborative learning
- Share examples and good practices of collaborative activities
- Follow tips & organize collaborative activities to encourage collaboration using different learning environments (classroom, school, networks of schools at national & European level)
- Discover tools for effective collaboration
- Design their own collaborative lesson plan
- Review 3 project plans of their peers
Offered by
This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
Schedule
- How to get started with this course
- Module 1: Effective Collaboration into the Classroom
- Module 2: Collaborative Culture within the School
- Module 3: Bridges of Collaboration beyond Schools
- Module 4: Networking of Collaborative Learning
- Module 5: Evaluation
