COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
MUHAMMAD MU’AZ
BIN BAKTHIAR CHEN
SEKOLAH: SK
MELAYU PUSAT
KELAS: 5 DINAMIK
1. Introduction
The term collaborative learning is a
way of teaching which has a very broad definition. In this article,
collaborative learning refers to the language learning process which needs
pupils to cooperate in group or whole class activity to achieve the targeted
outcomes of the lesson. Cooperative learning could be use as a method to
enhance pupils’ interest to study English language. Besides that, it is
important to understand that collaborative learning is not solely focusing on
group work. Instead, it can be done in a large classroom or other proper medium
of interactions which involve large number of participants.
2. Issues
In my classroom, some of the pupils
were reluctant to involve actively in the activities during English lesson.
This situation usually occurred during group work activity because some of the
pupils had low self-confident to involve themselves during the lesson. Due to
this situation, I was not able to manage good and effective learning process.
Besides that, for the good or
advance learners, they tended to take control of the group task because they
wanted to finish the task as soon as possible. However, this situation leaded
to imbalance involvement among the group members. For example, in a group with
an advance pupil, he or she usually tried to complete the task on his or her
own while other members acted as passive learners.
The big gap between advance and weak
learners could decrease pupils’ motivation to take part in group and whole
class activities. The advance learners will feel bored and the weak learners
will feel hopeless because the task given is not appropriate for their level.
Hence, some teachers may choose to divide pupils according to their abilities
and provide them task with different level of difficulties. This is a good and
effective move to overcome this problem. However, teacher may also use other
approach such as by using collaborative learning strategy.
3. Steps to
overcome the problems
To overcome the problems as
mentioned previously, I tried to use collaborative learning with other
techniques to ensure the effectiveness of the learning process during the
lesson.
3.1 Group
In preparing group activity, I chose
to pick groups with mixed ability. By making this decision, I hope that the
advance learners able to help the average and weak learners in their respective
groups. In order to ensure the successfulness of this planning, each group
members were given specific roles such as presenter, writer, time keeper and
group leader. The group members were given freedom to choose their own roles.
Besides that, I prefer my pupils to stay in the same group for a few lessons to
create better understanding among them. Picture 1 and 2 show that the pupils
were given their specific roles in completing the task given.
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