Tesis
Collaborative teaming: Adapting a task-based cycle into a unit Project
Autor
Sánchez G., Gabriel
Institución
Resumen
Tesis para optar al grado de Licenciado en Educación Collaboration and effective communication are highly considered in this society. Schools have added these skills into their programmes, and English lessons seem to become a great opportunity to put them into practice, but there is a misunderstanding of how to include them in group works. For many years researchers have coincide in the importance of building rapport and a trust environment in the classroom. However, students have become quite competitive for reaching a mark and just focusing on the final outcome rather than acknowledging the importance of their process behaviours. This article works from the research question of how to build trust, respect and tolerance between students in a private school context to promote collaboration in high school levels. It also presents results of the implementation of a didactic unit in a Year 11 class from a Chilean private school. They were put in the challenge of creating an Escape Room, which is a popular game people play all over the world, and they formed teams to plan different actions and to assign several responsibilities towards a common goal; all of these lessons were implemented using a Task Based Learning Teaching (TBLT) approach as its principles cope with the article’s research. Results of the intervention showed that competition can be diminished when teachers promote collaboration and interdependence for solving problems in a project