Quote of the Week by Annabel - Olashore International School - Ijeda, Nigeria

Transcript:
(00:00)  Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing ourselves.  Paul Solarz is a fifth grade teacher who spends a lot of time speaking with fellow educators about development and the best teaching methods.  He recently won the Illinois Computer Educator of the Year Award.

(00:27)  He created a global awareness curriculum to help students learn  about other cultures. Collaboration is the process of two or more people or organisations  working together to complete a task achieving it. It involves the ability to encourage working  together, sharing ideas and integrating efforts.  It is one of the key strengths in our leadership program in OIS and it has been effectively put into use in our classrooms, school life and personal homes.

(00:57)  Different people have different ideas, strengths and skills. Collaboration requires that the various strengths are put together  to produce one achievement which would not ordinarily have been done by a single person.  In Lord we can achieve little, but in collaborating we can harness the strengths and talents of others to achieve more.

(01:25)  Here Team Spirit is asked to work to enable the opinions of every team member count.  Collaboration involves motivation, encouragement and engagement.  It involves sharing ideas for feedback, discovering new areas of achieving goals and better ways of getting things done.  Project-based researches often achieve better results when collaborating.

(01:54)  Students can collaborate by breaking assignments into sub-staff and assigning to various group members.  This allows students to be experts in their own tasks. Students can learn through peer learning,  peer instruction, decision making, trust building and conflict management skills. These are necessary to achieve greater results.

(02:21)  Collaboration promotes learning and goal achievements at a larger scale.  In OIS, classroom settings have been changed from rows into workstations to enhance collaboration.  So, collaborate today and see greater results. Thank you.