Rebecca Moore Howard’s “Collaborative Pedagogy” provided me more practical application to classroom teaching. With each reading, I have taken little snippets or clippings of practices that I would like to institute in my own classroom teaching practices. In addition, I wished that we had received the handout for Bruffee. It would have been a nice complement to the Howard article/essay.
Particularly, Howard discusses the use of group work or team work in the classroom. I have never been a proponent of grouped classroom assignments. In my experiences, and they have never been positive, I have ended up doing more work or extra assignments for those who had not read or some other act of fate – my grandmother died (three times during the semester).
I see the benefits of collaborative writing and the feedback that it allows in the writing process. I suppose, in a few classroom activities, I would encourage collaborative pedagogical approaches in the developmental stages of a writing composition; however, the final submission would be an independent project.
In the end, all the short essays have allowed me to create a bricolage of ideas and will aid me in teaching in the classroom.
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While I'm still not sure about collaborative "writing," I think collaborative "learning" happens often and is most helpful when everyone involved is interested in a particular topic. If collaborative "writing" involves each student being responsible for individual sections or parts of a project, then I can see applying it to class assignments.
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