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**10 - More Collaboration**

**Aim**: participants will explore the role of collaboration toward a student-centred approach to teaching and learning.

**Session question:** // How in the world do we work together? //

**Conceptual Understandings**
 * // Open minds inspire agreements. //
 * // Shared vocabulary strengthens collaboration and promotes higher functioning learning communities. //

 The Language quiz //Table One (Daphne, Melina, Paramjit, Peter, Cheryl)//

//What is Education?// //- Knowledge + Understanding// //- Different to schooling and schooling is not education// //- Who controls education?// //- Education is controlled by yourself// //- Sum total of learning that enables you to help yourself and others// //- Personally transformative// //- Being critical// //- looking at different perspective// //- Being open minded//

//What is a subject?// //-// //Table 6 (Tyler, Ramasawamy, Pat, Monica, Theresa, Jacinta)//
 * Assessment ** – benchmarking, rubrics, tools and strategies, scope and sequence, criterion-referenced, formative, summative, descriptors, bands, performance based tasks (GRASPS), anecdotal notes, feedback, peer reviews, portfolios, assessment as, assessment for, assessment of, reports, (comment banks), student-led conferences, standards, norm-references, moderation, monitoring, exemplars


 * Inquiry ** – questioning, collaborating, brainstorming, thinking, researching, talking (dialogue), processing, conferring, cycles, interacting, discovering, finding out, reflecting, evaluating, considering, balancing, reviewing, IB attitudes and Learner Profile in action, depth, breadth, conceptual understanding, exploring, experimenting, higher order thinking skills, critical thinking


 * Teaching and Learning ** – Constructivism, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, project based, SLE (student-learning experiences), understanding, cyclic, growth/development, concepts, skills, areas of knowledge, global perspectives, 21st Century, technology (Blogs, Wikis, Moodle, hubs, eportfolios, computers, digital literacy, digital learning, cyber safety, Web2.0,), applying, doing, explaining, cooperative, individual.