COLLABORATION

I will facilitate an authentic collaborative learning experience to promote deeper student engagement with content skills and concepts by providing examples and rubrics that will outline how the assignment should be completed and what the finished product should resemble. I will provide a series of real world scenarios and problems that students will have to analyze and provide a solution through group collaboration and critical thinking. I will support students’ efforts to identify solutions to the problem that is posed by sharing my personal experiences and experiences of others. By doing this, students will be able to make a connection with the content to their life. Students will also be responsible for collaborating with their parents and/or guardians in order to complete their PBL assignment. I will assign learners in their collaborative groups according to their level of experience or lack there of with credit and finances. For example, the students who currently have personal checking accounts would group together and those without checking accounts would collaborate together. The size of the collaborative groups will be small, preferably three to four students per group. The digital tools and websites that I am considering for collaboration in my unit are Google drive, online blog, class wiki page, online discussion boards, WebQuests, and simulations. Google drive would be a tool for students to use to record transactions into a spreadsheet. Online blogs and wiki pages would allow students to post their responses to questions and collaborate with other members in their group. A simulation would allow students to complete a series of tasks to accomplish a goal or propose solutions to the problems that are posed in the simulation. Students will be assessed for their participation in their collaborative groups through surveys and group charters. In the group charters, each group member will determine and list the role(s) they will perform in the group. An example of this would be the researcher, organizer, editor, etc. Students will complete a survey at the end of each assigned component of the group assignment. Each group member will rate their group members according to their level of participation.