Correct Answer - Option 3 : collaborative: competitive
Learning in groups leads to learning in a social context with observation, modelling, discussions and help from more knowledgeable others in the group. It is important to create a collaborative learning environment in the classroom rather than a comparative one. Collaboration involves the mutual engagement of participants and a coordinated effort to solve the problem.
Collaborative and participatory approach:
- The approach involves students as partners in planning, transaction and assessment of the teaching-learning process and thus, includes giving and receiving feedback by both students and teachers.
- It fosters healthy teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil relationships through teacher-supported, peer and group learning.
- It encourages active engagement of students in the process of teaching-learning and assessment to enhance learning by providing an opportunity for dialogue and feedback between teacher and student.
- Involving children by giving more and more opportunities in planning, conducting and evaluating different tasks, helps build skills of self and peer assessment among them which, in turn, reduces teachers’ burden to a large extent.
- Children facilitate them by taking responsibility for assessing their own work, their peers’ work and promote collaborative learning by helping each other learn.
- Help from parents or guardians can be sought in this process as they can also contribute meaningfully towards the progress of their wards.
Thus from above-mentioned points, it is clear that it is important to create a collaborative learning environment in the classroom rather than a competitive one.