Collaboration is an important and useful tool to be used in many different circumstances within many environments a person might be in. There are many ways that people collaborate in their everyday activities, such as in work environments (meetings, communicating, and helping each other), communities (church groups and support through adversities), and schools (study groups, group work, etc.). In the classroom, collaboration is important to help students gain knowledge about the material in different ways and help them understand the material better.

While working alone, students may only know limited information and form their ideas around that limited amount, but if they work with another student who may have different ideas and information, then they can include that in their work.

Collaboration offers a lot in school systems such as ways to:

• Teach students how to work productively with others for their lives after school.
• Reach out to other teachers and gain ideas for assignments.
• Provide students with a way to work with others with little issues.

A good example of collaboration in the world after school is the science community. Scientists from all over the world share and compare data every day to develop new theories and ideas and change old ones.