The Challenges Of Collaborative Learning

Register to read the introduction… It is not only can help students to learn essential social skills, but also assist them to be good workforces for the society. Those students, who are familiar with collaborative learning, can provide a critical thinking in the job task and skillful employability skills in the workplace. Their personal abilities can contribute to the whole team by accomplishing tasks in efficiency and effective manners. Therefore, collaborative learning will assist students to be efficiency staff in the workplace and have ability to work in a team at a major …show more content…
It is a challenge for teachers to guide their students to work as a team and allocate them into one group. To form a group is an unnatural process, instructors need to rely on the detail of assignment, the nature of the task, students’ personality and their abilities to form a group. If a teacher fails to examine necessary factors before forming a group, it will experience a conflict or unbalance team and directly affect the work performance (Barkley, et al, 2005). Therefore, it is hard for teachers or team leaders to allocate jobs due to varies personalities and working abilities. Instructors need to take all possible factors into consideration to allocate assignment and form properly group. It is the first step to help students to work together and learn from each …show more content…
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