Collaboration is working interdependently, learning from and contributing to the learning of others for a shared purpose in a wide range of environments.

	Novice	Basic	Proficient	Advanced
Working interdependently	Identifies roles and norms within a provided or familiar teamwork   structure and fulfills a role with close guidance from or monitoring by others.	Describes and fulfills the duties and responsibilities of a single role within a group structure following established norms in order to complete a task.	Explains the duties of different team roles within a familiar or provided structure, fulfills a variety of assigned roles and responsibilities and implements agreed-upon norms when individual roles and responsibilities are clearly defined.	Generates roles, responsibilities and norms within a team structure to accomplish an assigned task and fulfills a leadership role by matching team members’ strengths to various roles and responsibilities to accomplish an assigned task.
Learning and contributing to learning	Answers specific questions about individual work and provides general feedback to others.	Reviews work in response to feedback from teacher and/or peers, shares learning during group discovery time, and provides feedback to others based on the team’s goal.	Revises work in response to feedback, peer interaction, and self-assessment to meet or exceed the criteria for success, expands on the learning and resources gathered by other group members, and provides specific feedback to others based on success criteria.	Engages team to act upon advancing the knowledge base of all group members, uses self-reflection and feedback to ask clarifying questions to guide revisions or make improvements to the product to meet or exceed criteria for success.
Purpose	Sets completion goals as a team with guidance and submits products related to the goals without prompting.	Sets learning goals as a team that pertain to the task and makes individual contributions to final group product.	Determines group and individual goals related to the task, builds shared knowledge, creates a product, and reflects on learning.	Explains rationale behind team and individual goals while balancing individual task completion, builds shared understanding, meets team goals in agreed timeframe in order to create a product, and shows evidence of self-reflection on individual and group learning.

Communication is interacting with others to convey meaning and gain understanding for multiple purposes, settings and audiences including the digital environment.

	Novice	Basic	Proficient	Advanced
Interacting with others	Identifies different contexts, purposes and audiences for communication and engages with others by taking turns to respond.	Chooses an appropriate level of formality for a familiar context, purpose and/or audience and follows structured norms for responding.	Uses an appropriate level of formality for different contexts, purposes and audiences and utilizes active listening and response strategies.	Employs an appropriate level of formality for different contexts, purposes and audiences, employs a variety of effective strategies in interacting with others and follows norms for dialogues, discussions and decision-making.
Conveying meaning and gaining understanding	States ideas, asking and answering basic questions within dialogue and discussions and uses visuals to communicate thinking.	Contributes ideas and asks questions to check personal understanding, provides evidence for ideas and integrates visuals to communicate thinking and add interest.	Shares ideas, builds upon others’ thinking, asks questions to clarify ideas of others, provides supporting evidence with citations, interprets words and images and integrates visuals into presentation of ideas.	Exchanges ideas and asks questions to deepen understanding, presents own ideas and credits others’ thinking, cites credible supporting evidence and interprets and integrates visuals to strengthen message and add interest.
Digital environment	Follows the provided rules for safe behavior in digital environments and uses digital tools with guidance and support.	Shows an understanding of safe behavior when communicating in digital environments and uses provided digital tools and multimedia independently.	Uses digital tools, creates multimedia and works in online environments to convey ideas and collaborate with others while demonstrating safe behavior.	Selects and uses digital tools and creates multimedia to enhance communication and demonstrates safe, legal and ethical behavior in online environments.

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