Building a Collaborative Culture Beyond Classrooms

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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.

Last updated: 07.04.2025

Description

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.

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

Methodology & assessment

The course participants will be assessed through the (short) course learning–tasks offered at the end of each module, and the final module task – which will include the option to consider either the personal benefits that can result from taking part in a professional learning network or the steps involved in designing a meaningful learning network for a community of teachers or other educators.

Certification details

Upon successful completion of the course a digital course certificate is awarded. The certificate shows the name of the learner and key course details such as the estimated learning hours, the learning objectives, and a link to the course homepage.

Додатне информације

Језик:

English
Target audience ISCED:

Early childhood education (ISCED 0)

Primary education (ISCED 1)

Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)
Target audience type:

Head Teacher / Principal

Teacher

Teacher Educator
Learning time:

5-10 hours