Collaboration makes students feel new brainwaves of inspiration, creativity, and ingenuity. I know it also can make students more wired to work. Collaboration can affect a person’s spur to be social, and work with others. It teaches younger students the power that comes from sharing ideas. It can be fascinating to see the imagination seep out of someone else’s brain and mind. I think, even though collaborating can lead to chatty groups and extra time needed to work into the next period or the next day, it also leads to smiling and excited faces that are more and more eager to learn and explore more knowledge basis than just their own personal connection to the assignment. Teaching children how to be social through assignments and projects also aids them in the understanding how to discuss scholastically. Even with collaborating in small groups to discuss a lesson that was just taught, this gives each child more insight toward the topic. Personally, I love to still collaborate as a college student. I feel like I continue to learn more and gain more from the lesson. I think an important standard to collaboration should be to collaborate in small groups rotating each week, so they are getting multiple points of view to their understanding. Another thing that I think should be considered is to make sure the stronger thinkers out of the crowd of students are spread and sprinkled throughout the class groups.
