Collaborative approach 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼.

 Hello everyone!🤩💖 After a few days, it's nice to have you back on here✨. Today we start period 2! So that means new topics and new entries, yay!🥳🥳

Today I will tell you a little bit about Collaborative Approach👬🏻👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏼.

The Collaborative Approach is all about working together with your tribe on different activities, this can be separate tasks that contribute to a common outcome or a shared task. The Collaborative Approach is usually divided into three different groups.

1. Community Language Learning: As we mentioned in one of the last entries, here you need your tribe to learn🐺🐺🐺, nothing is usually prepared so you just go with the flow. You can do different activities such as having the students record a conversation which later you can use to analyze it and teach from there. 
2. Task-Based Learning: Here is where group work evolves to teamwork🫱🏻‍🫲🏼, and where taking small steps make you achieve objects that you have set. A difference between this and the CLL is that here you do need planning because well-crafted projects are a must!
3. Content-Based Learning: This is considered collaborative when group work is promoted📣.

To put into practice all of this theory, teacher Orlando guided us to do some really fun activities😁. In the first activity, we started doing a Listening Triangle. Here we all had different roles, María and Nathaly were the notetakers, Dani was the questionnaire and I was the speaker. This basically consisted of teacher Orlando asking us questions and with the help of our different roles we had to come up with the correct answer.

For the second activity, Talk Partners👬🏻, teacher Orlando gave all of us one rod and we had to pair up with another classmate who had the same color rod, I paired with Jonathan, and we had to answer the question: " Is it necessary to go to college if you can make money out of social media? "

Then, using the same color rods, each of the groups that we made at the beginning had to come up with the name of a country, this was part of the Think-Pair-Share activity. We called our country Danamima (we got creative and decided to create the name using the first two letters of each of our name😂) and then each of us were the "minister" of a certain area according to the color of our rods. All of the ministers of each group got together to discuss what was our country doing to improve and after that reunion, we went back to our original groups and shared with the class what we discussed👀.

Here's Nathaly sharing with everyone our group's conclusion. 

And last but not least, we had a competitive activity. Two people from each group got a pair of tangled-up strings and the goal was to detangle them with the help of the rest of the group. Dani and María were the ones who volunteered to participate. They were so excited at the beginning and they even had a strategy to win🫣😲.

But after their strategy not working, and after many more tries, they started to get frustrated☹️. Teacher Orlando came over to give us some encouraging words since most of the class was already detangling their string. 

Sadly, we were one of the groups who didn't make it, but we all had fun and the laughs were not missing. Here's a picture of both of the groups who didn't make it (the disappointment on their faces😂) 

Overall, it was a very fun and dynamic class! I must say that these type of activities is what makes the class even more interesting than what already is, I am loving it!🤩✨ But that is it for today's entry, stay tuned for the next ones because more fun and REALLY interesting topics are coming! Byeeee 👋🏻💛.