I use the You Tube video "Lessons From Geese" in all of my classes to introduce the concept of collaboration and cooperation in my classroom. I stress the importance of developing a teaching/learning relationship among the students in my classroom. I try to eliminate the concept of competition for grades.
I want the students to help each other to learn and encourage the idea that all students can achieve success. The teaching/learning concepts of Dr. Gary Phillip's are further developed in understanding that when students teach each other they actually improve their own understanding of the material.
I go to great lengths to explain the difference between cheating and actually assisting students to understand as a means of improving the learning process for everyone.
T - Together
E - Each
A - Achieve
M - More
Once a coach, always a coach.
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