Collaboration & Group Learning

No matter where, what, or whom one teaches, creating a learning community is essential to promoting learning at home, school, and the work place. In order to live, learn, and work together effectively, we need to be able to listen to one another, to work together to identify and solve problems, and to acknowledge and respect diverse points of view.

Resources

Tool
Examples of documentation shared back with learners
Published: 2001
Making visible images of learning and being together in a group is a way to foster group identity and learning. This type of documentation promotes conversation or deepens... Read more
Tool
Examples of documentation to aid teachers' own reflections
Published: 2001
Documentation collected for this purpose helps teachers stay close to students' learning and interests by enabling them to revisit a learning experience. It leads teachers to... Read more
Book
Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners
Published: 2001
In this richly-illustrated book, the culmination of a two-year research collaboration between teachers and pedagogues from Reggio Emilia and researchers from Project Zero... Read more
Article
Challenging Educational Assumptions: lessons from an Italian-American collaboration
Published: 2000
Abstract: In this paper, the authors argue that in order to create a curriculum of the future, we need to re-evaluate at least four key assumptions about teaching and... Read more