Phys 0175 Collaboration

Your role in this class will be very different than what you may have experienced in other courses. To help you see what is expected, take a look at the table below.

Traditional Classroom Students shift from...	Collaborative Classroom to...
Listener, observer, and note taker	Active problem solver, contributor, and discussant
Low or moderate expectations of preparation for class	High expectations of preparation for class
Private presence in the classroom with few or no risks	Public presence with many risks
Attendance dictated by personal choice	Attendance dictated by community expectation
Competition with peers	Collaborative work with peers
Responsibilities and self-definition associated with learning independently	Responsibilities and self-definition associated with learning interdependently
Seeing teachers and texts as the sole sources of authority and knowledge	Seeing peers, self, and the community as additional and important sources of authority and knowledge

MacGregor, J. (1990). Collaborative learning: Shared inquiry as a process of reform. In M.D. Svinicki (Ed.), The changing face of college teaching (pp. 19-30). New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 42. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

University of Pittsburgh	Physics & Astronomy
Phys 0175 (Leibovich Section): Introduction to Physics Science & Engineering 2
Collaborative Classroom

University of Pittsburgh

Phys 0175 (Leibovich Section): Introduction to Physics Science & Engineering 2

Collaborative Classroom