Collaborative Learning

When students solve each other’s problems, they gain confidence in their own skills and witness the power of collaboration in real time.

The team competition is fierce in this informal assessment activity, in which students have to work together to win.

When students pretend they’re at a fancy party making small talk, a simple brainstorm for writing ideas becomes more lively, more cooperative—and more effective.

This classic group learning strategy can help students communicate, collaborate, and empathize with one another—fighting back against a growing sense of disconnection in schools.

Deep thinking and active collaboration aren’t mutually exclusive. These strategies extend silent reading by centering student engagement.

Group work can be challenging for students, but teachers can facilitate relationship building that leads to positive learning outcomes.

This method calls for students working in groups to create problems, point out common errors, find solutions, and then explain the process.

When teachers provide opportunities for students to construct figures and play with dimensions while exploring geometry, math becomes more accessible to everyone.

These teacher-approved activities will help create the sort of classroom bonds that pave the way to academic success.

When teachers bring collaboration, creativity, and movement into assessment, anxiety and dread give way to confidence and joy as students show off what they have learned.

This routine creates an equitable structure for sharing out ideas, questions, or evidence in science class—and helps ensure every student takes part.

When social and emotional learning is woven into core math curriculum, elementary students can grow in their math skills, social awareness, and emotional literacy—all at the same time.

Small group instruction is a key strategy for meeting the diverse needs of students, but figuring out how to manage it can be tricky.

This simple activity helps students practice giving and receiving peer feedback—and gets them out of their desks.