Collaborative Learning
Working together to solve problems and complete projects deepens students’ learning and builds collaborative skills. Learn how to design activities to help develop these skills.
A Simple Outdoor Activity to Build Collaboration Skills
Taking elementary students outside to work together in a team-based scavenger hunt can help build classroom community.218Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Positioning Elementary Students as Experts in Math Class
Encouraging students to take on roles traditionally reserved for teachers creates a shared culture of teaching and learning in the classroom.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Flipping the ‘I Do, We Do, You Do’ Model in Science Class
Instead of starting with a teacher’s explanation, many science lessons could begin with students exploring a phenomenon.How Classroom Jobs for Teens Instill Responsibility
When middle and high school students take ownership of tasks in their classroom regularly, they build a culture of teamwork and support.
Improv in the Classroom
A collection of our popular articles and videos about how theater games and improvisation can spark creativity, build relationships, and boost academics and executive function skills alike.5.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Exploring Narrative Elements Through a Drama Game
Using an improv exercise to practice the parts of a story gets ideas flowing for students—and helps them add structure to their writing.Activating Learning by Milling to Music
When students pretend they’re at a fancy party making small talk, a simple brainstorm for writing ideas becomes more lively, more cooperative—and more effective.22kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.16 Variations on Think-Pair-Share to Keep Students Engaged
Teachers and students use this classic learning strategy often. To keep it from getting stale, try these tweaks.
22 Powerful Closure Activities
Quick activities that can be used to check for understanding or emphasize key information at the end of a lesson.55.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.60-Second Strategy: Whiteboard Relay
The team competition is fierce in this informal assessment activity, in which students have to work together to win.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Giving Students Time and Confidence to Build Their Metacognition Skills
A high school teacher subtly encourages students to develop an appreciation for the “in-between” steps on the path of learning.60-Second Strategy: Respond, Reflect, and Review
This simple activity helps students practice giving and receiving peer feedback—and gets them out of their desks.15.8kYour content has been saved!
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Student-Centered Learning: It Starts With the Teacher
Teachers encourage student-centered learning by allowing students to share in decisions, believing in their capacity to lead, and remembering how it feels to learn.24.4kYour content has been saved!
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Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities
Six factors to consider in designing lessons to help increase student engagement behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively.22.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.8 Closing Activities to Wrap Up a Lesson
Lock in the day’s learning with these closing activities that check for understanding and clear up misconceptions.
