Collaboration Observation Sheet

• Consistently work alone or with others?
  
  
• Try to help others? In what ways?
  
  
• Succeed in asking for and getting needed help? From whom?
  
  
• Stick to the task or become easily distracted?
  
• Become actively involved in the problem?

• Try to explain ideas?
  
  
• Support arguments with evidence?
  
  
• Consider seriously and use the suggestions and ideas of others?

• Talk for self-clarification and to communicate to others?
  
  
• Comfortably fill the role of both “talker” and “listener”?
  
  
• Have confidence to make a report to the whole class?
  
  
• Capably represent a group consensus as well as own ideas?
  
  
• Synthesize and summarize individual or group thinking?

• Divide the task among members?
  
  
• Agree on a plan or structure for tackling the task?
  
  
• Take time to ensure that all members understand the task?
  
  
• Use group time in a productive way?
  
  
• Provide support for each member?
  
  
• Think about recording or documenting group work?
  
  
• Allow for the development of leadership?