Benefits of Active Learning and Collaborative Working.
Benefits of Active learning:
Benefits of Collaborative Working:
Activity 1
Complete the table below to identify and reflect on those factors and plan actions for each.
| Recognition/ Reflection | Action |
| What helps my learning? | How can I utilise this? |
| Discussing ideas | Meeting up with others to share ideas or having a study group. |
| Making notes | Making notes during lectures to make sure I have all the important information and reading over the notes later to make sure I understand it. |
| Planning ahead and being organised. | I set targets for my work to make sure I am on top of my work to ensure I don’t get stressed closer to deadlines, especially with assignments. |
| Studying alone | I think I work better when doing assignments alone in my room as this allows me to stay focused on the task and not be distracted by anyone or anything. |
| Recognition/Reflection | Action | |
| What hinders my learning? | How can I address this factor? | |
| Spending time on social media | · Stay away from my phone when studying or working on assignments.
· Avoid going on social media on my laptop unless absolutely necessary |
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| People talking around me. | To study or work on assignments alone in my room to stay way from any distractions. | |
Activity 2
I have a diary of all the assignments, placements and modules I have throughout the year to ensure that I can stay on top of my work load and not be stressed when it comes to the due dates of my assignments. This allows me to plan ahead to have time for reading, researching and writing assignments.
Activity 1
Rate yourself (1=Not very well developed; 3=very well developed)
| Skills and Abilities | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Flexibility | ✓ | ||
| Self confidence | ✓ | ||
| Self discipline | ✓ | ||
| Work under pressure | ✓ | ||
| Set personal goals | ✓ | ||
| Take risks | ✓ | ||
| Share opinions confidently | ✓ | ||
| Team work | ✓ | ||
| Take responsibility | ✓ | ||
| Build social networks | ✓ | ||
| Manage Time | ✓ | ||
| Act as a leader | ✓ | ||
| Negotiation | ✓ | ||
| Make presentations | ✓ | ||
| Listen to others | ✓ | ||
| Debate formally and informally | ✓ | ||
| Contribute to discussion | ✓ | ||
| Converse confidently | ✓ | ||
| Take notes | ✓ | ||
| Write for academic purposes | ✓ | ||
| Computing skills | ✓ | ||
| Be creative | ✓ | ||
| Use technology | ✓ | ||
| Problem solve | ✓ | ||
| Generate new ideas | ✓ | ||
| Work on own initiative | ✓ | ||
| Organise and plan | ✓ | ||
| Think critically | ✓ | ||
| Evaluate information | ✓ |
Activity 2
| Recognition | Reflection | Action |
| Skills already developed | How I will use these | How do I know (evidence)** |
| Flexibility | To be able to compromise with others, especially in group work. | In the working together module, I had to be flexible when working with the group when sharing ideas and had to compromise on some things. |
| Team work | I will use teamwork when I have to work in a group for a project, as it is important to work together to get the project done. | From the working together module, we worked as group to plan and make our presentation and then present our presentation at the end of the module. |
| Organise and plan | Plan assignments and have to do lists. | For both working together poster and the values essay, I had to plan the layout and content of my poster and essay before I started them so I knew what I was doing. |
| Take responsibility | Be responsible for my actions. | When working in a group in the working together module, I always tried to have my work done ahead of meeting up as I had to be responsible for my own actions and not let the group down. |
| Manage time | Being able to plan ahead. | When it comes to deadlines, it important to manage my time to be able to meet the deadline. I always have to plan my assignment in advance to ensure I can meet the deadline. |
| Negotiation | Being able to compromise and negotiation with others. | When working in groups previously, I have been able to negotiate and compromise well with others to avoid conflict. |
| Make presentations | Making presentations for assignments in working together module | I have previously made many assignments during my IB, however, I will continue to do so in the working together module for my poster and group presentation. |
| Listen to others | When working in a group | It is important to listen and respect others opinions and ideas when working in a group and I have done so during the working together module and other times previously when working in a group especially during IB. |
| Take notes | Taking notes to reflect on my learning later | I take notes during every lecture to remind myself later of what I thought was important or relevant to know. I also take notes when studying as I feel this helps me. |
| Computing skills | Using computer for assignments, blogs or online units. | I have used my computing skills during my online tasks and using it for assignments and presentations. |
| Use technology | Using laptops or phones to research things for assignments, using online resources or complete assignments. | I use technology to do my assignments and using online resources and have previously used technology a lot during my IB course to complete coursework. |
| Set personal goals | I set personal goals to achieve by the end of the week/day on what I want to be completed. | When completing assignments, I set goals on what I think I should have completed by the end of the day to ensure I am managing my workload. |
| Recognition | Reflection | Action |
| Skills to be developed | How I will develop these | How do I know (evidence) ** |
| Self confidence | I can use self confidence in my work and presentations | I will be more confident in my work when submitting assignments or presentations |
| Self discipline | Having self control on working on assignments and not being distracted easily. | |
| Work under pressure | Sometimes when there are a lot of assignments due around the same time, I can get under a lot of pressure. I can work on this by trying to control my workload more. | |
| Take risks | By being more confident in myself and to not be afraid to try new creative ideas. | |
| Share opinions confidently | To share ideas and opinions more openly in group work and lectures and not to worry about other peoples opinions. | I have been working on this by sharing my ideas to my peer group more during the working together module. |
| Build social networks | Trying to talk to new people and always staying in contact with people. | |
| Act as a leader | Being more confident in myself to take control of situations during group work. | |
| Debate formally and informally | By raising discussions with friends and during group work. | |
| Contribute to discussion | Voice my opinion more during group work and not just sit back and allow others to talk. | I have been working on this by contributing my ideas to the group discussions more with my peer learning group. |
| Converse confidently | Have more confidence in my ideas and opinions. | |
| Write for academic purposes | Working on my essay writing skills. | Always reflecting on my writing skills after receiving feedback on an essay. |
| Be creative | By doing more research for ideas and having more confidence in my ideas. | |
| Problem solve | Looking from different perspectives and thinking outside the box. | |
| Generate new ideas | Doing research on ideas and increasing my knowledge. | |
| Work on own initiative | Have more self-confidence in my initiative and not be afraid to try new things. | |
| Think critically | Being able to reflect and analyse something so that I can improve on it. | |
| Evaluate information | Focusing on feedback from assignments and working on improving the negatives. |
