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Te Tree of Collaborative Learning Collaborative Learning is an environment where two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together. All fngers of a hand when come together become a fst. Tis is the same with learning when more and more people indulge in learning together more ideas grow, more concepts are viewed thus learning is taken to a higher level. Tis learning includes conversation analysis and statistical discourse analysis. When compared to more traditional method where a student is bound to the information received from teacher and is not open to more thoughts collaborative learning nourishes minds. Trough CCE, CBSE has tried to invoke the values of collaborative learning in many ways. It has proved to be a successful pattern to open up a child’s brain through co-curricular activities such as debates etc. A seed has been planted and soon the roots of the tree of collaborative learning will hold the sand and prevent the erosion of young minds. CBSE has proved to be the best once again and may remain same forever. Surinder Kumar Manchanda Sant Raghbir Singh Aims Senior Secondary School, Basti Sheikh, Jalandhar, Punjab  Good Technique Makes Good Teaching “Learning makes good technique, and techniques make best teaching.” In education, we follow many techniques and day-by-day, year-by-year we feel progressive change in education. Teachers, students and parents are the most important factor of the education. If all these means do equal and efective participation in education then we can say that the learning of students is going in the right way. For instance, I gave a survey project to my students to collect data from their ward or mohalla, about literacy and then present it. I was very happy because of the cooperation of all students. Good communicators interacted with the families and one of them recorded the data, some students prepared the draft of the presentation and all of them were ready to present their work in class. I think, this was the type of collaborative learning because not only did the students interact with each other, but also tried to use the best quality of each one of them. Tey learnt by collaborating in teams, and also every student was able to understand everything about the topic. Akhilesh Kumar Dobhal Vice-Principal, Hills International School, Pauri, Garhwal, Uttarakhand  January-March 2014 43