Collaboration
Collaboration is a vehicle for the civic responsibility we want our students to develop. To participate effectively in a democratic community, children need to learn to engage in dialogue. We think it is vital for children to learn to explain their own thinking, to consider another point of view, to build on someone else's idea, and to reconsider their own thinking based on feedback from others. Teachers expect children to collaborate to solve problems, to plan activities, and to work together on whole class projects. Children are also expected to consult classmates whenever they need feedback or another idea for approaching a problem. In this way, children are exposed to multiple strategies for solving a problem and become more flexible in their thinking. Children learn to assume leadership at the same time that they assume responsibility for the needs of others in the group.
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