Collaborativelearning.org Website Review

please join our network. we hope you will do*nload and try out our resources, adapt them to fit your curriculum and share your versions. with us. if you are near enough, why not think about attending one of our free saturday workshops! we develop, share and disseminate free talk for learning activities in all subject areas and for all ages. we started out as a group of teachers working in multilingual clas*rooms. we were funded by the inner london education authority 1983-89 and the eu in the 1990s.. we believe that teachers are more creative and develop more engaging and exciting resources when they plan and work collaboratively inside. excellent for all learners and vital for learners new to english! collaborative learning creates an eal friendly clas*room. it works developing challenging information gap activities for well motivated late arrivals, literate in first language, in secondary schools. that shares resources that scaffold talk. our activities can be used as they are, or tweaked a little to suit different clas*rooms or they. in the clas* in a playful, but purposeful, way. we want to nurture emotional and social development and make learners confident in learning english while they are learning everything else thrive on challenging activities that are quickly comprehensible. we don't want to oversimplify concepts nor patronise learners, but we break ideas down by presenting them in case studies with lots of detail and visual new meanings. there is also now neurological evidence that talk fuels brain development. unfortunately there is also evidence that talk has been neglected in our clas*rooms and this has widened the gap in attainment. talk is good for all learners and vital for children learning a new language while they are learning. our activities scaffold talk and help teachers plan for the language to support authority. apart from eu support to run training in the nineties we have survived, leanly and meanly, with no external funding. we have