Empowering Students Success through Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning is when a group of students works together towards a common goal, usually to help one another learn academic material. The effects of collaborative learning on student achievement are debated The effectiveness of collaborative learning in the classroom has as much to do with the teacher as it does with the students in the groups. There is an ongoing discussion surrounding the effectiveness of group work in the classroom and its effects on student learning. Collaborative learning covers a broad territory of approaches with wide variability in the amount of in-class or out-of-class time built around group work. The teacher is the one that must not only teach them a subject, but also the different methods of learning. The positive effects of collaborative learning are evident and there is little question that collaborative learning can be a useful tool and should be utilized in the learning environment.