Collaboration · 17 Indicators · 4 Progression Levels
Collaboration is the ability to work toward shared goals through engaging in effective communication, coordinating group efforts to integrate diverse perspectives while fostering interpersonal relationships. It involves exchanging ideas openly, regulating group activities, and prioritizing building trust and respect to enable groups to leverage individual strengths while maintaining focus on collective success.
| Code | Exploring | Analyzing | Integrating | Extending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1.1A | Asks questions to better understand a topic, group task or shared goal. | Asks questions to better understand group members' ideas. | Asks questions to understand diverse ideas and perspectives, both in what group members think and why they hold certain views. | Asks questions that help the group understand and use diverse ideas and perspectives, including those from personal or cultural experiences (e.g., to create a combination of the group's ideas). |
1.1B | Acknowledges what group members have shared to ensure accurate understanding (e.g., restates information shared by group members to show basic understanding). | Considers group members' ideas in group discussions. | Considers others' ideas and shares suggestions to help the group move forward (e.g., uses ideas from other group members to show how contributions support the group work). | Uses suggestions from the group to show how different ideas can be part of the group's final product (e.g., combines group members' ideas to create a new answer/solution for a next step or final product or to strengthen/refine existing work). |
| Code | Exploring | Analyzing | Integrating | Extending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1.2A | Acknowledges others' ideas (e.g., by restating). [Note intentional overlap with 1.1B and 1.2B.] | Listens intentionally by giving group members space to share their ideas without interruption, even when ideas are different. | Adds group members' ideas to improve their own ideas, especially when their ideas are different. | Compares and combines different ideas by showing how they are similar, different or strong in different ways. |
1.2B | Contributes own unique ideas and perspectives to the task without referencing what others have said. | Contributes ideas and resources to help group members work on different parts of the task. | Connects their ideas with group members' ideas to help the group complete the task. | Creates new ideas and solutions by combining different parts of group members' contributions. |
1.2C | Discusses ideas with the group. | Uses intentional discussions to explore and understand different ideas without judgment. | Engages in debates/conflicts constructively and considers different viewpoints in an open discussion with group members. | Engages in debates/conflicts constructively and works with group members to include different viewpoints in group solutions, and expresses vulnerability about their own viewpoints (e.g., recognizes flaws in their own views). |
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