Evidence suggests peer collaboration really motivates pupils, especially when learning remotely. Brindley, Laschke and Walti 2009 state that: “There is a significant relationship between participation in small group collaboration experiences and deeper learning. Peer collaboration aids the development of learning and teamwork skills. It can increase a sense of community, closely linked to learner satisfaction and …
A fantastic way to get either pupils or staff to ‘respond’ and’discuss’ elements during live learning is by placing a QR code in your lesson to a padlet page in order to enable all participants to share ideas. In addition all members of the ‘class’ can see one anothers’ comments and use their ideas in …
Flipgrid is an app that facilitates collaborative discussion between pupils and teachers. Teachers can subscribe for free and create an online ‘class’ where video lesson introductions or discussion topics can be recorded and posted. Pupils are then able to record their own response to be viewed by the class and teacher – a great tool …
Use this strategy to get pupils to make a tool to enable them to test one another based on what they have learnt. Get chatty
Pupils are allocated a task to complete and share for all peers to access via padlet. This can be a great revision tool, additionally pupils use it to support them in answering questions. Similarly using Googledocs to create a shared revision document that has been collaborated on by an entire class considering one single aspect …
When pupils work together they hone their creativity and critical thinking skills to help each other make sense of new material. It increases self-confidence as they discover they’re capable of mastering difficult concepts without help. Strategies to facilitate this: 1) Live question board – Using padlet pupils post their questions on and the teacher responds …
The teacher poses a question for pupils to consider independently. They write their response on a post it note and collate these on the board. Pupils then collect a couple, and discuss, respond, agree or disagree with their peer comments. Post it storm
A resource designed to allocate pupils clear roles within group activities to ensure all participate and furthermore develop their oracy/communication skills at the same time. Roles
Another partner talk strategy using visuals and sentence starters to promote structured dialogue between pupils. Talk tasks
A partner talk strategy where pupils enter into a structured dialogue about their learning prompted by sentence starters. Great idea to encourage pupils to debate or evaluate something. Talking point