Interactive, Collaborative Teaching and Learning: One Key to Student Success

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  • Candace S. Bos

Abstract

Interactive, collaborative teaching and learning is a model of teaching that my colleagues and I have been studying for the last 15 years as it relates to teaching content area concepts and reading comprehension to students with learning disabilities and who are English-language learners (Anders & Bos, 1992; Bas & Anders, 1990; Reyes & Bas, 1998) and for use in professional development of those teachers who work with these at-risk learners (Bos, Mather, Friedman Narr, & Babur, 1999; Bos, Nahmias, & Urban, 1997). This approach to teaching assumes that one key to student success is a model of teaching and learning that engages students and teachers in interactive dialogues and learning activities that promote students tying new knowledge to current knowledge and discovering the relationships between and among concepts. This model of teaching also relies on collaboration in that students and their teachers participate in knowledge sharing, collaborative learning, and shared understanding.

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