Cooperative Learning Overview Ppt For Hour Meeting

Cooperative Learning

Laura ChamblessSCC RESA K-7 Science and Math Consultant

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Cooperative Learning: What is It?

Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of varying abilities, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject.

Cooperative Learning: What is It?

Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught, but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement.

Cooperative Learning: What is It?

small teamsvarying abilities

variety of learning activitiesimprove their understanding

each member responsiblehelping teammates

atmosphere of achievement

What is Cooperative Learning?(use the window paning to help your discussion)

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Six Key Concepts of Kagan’s Cooperative Learning

• Teams - participate in teams• Management - non-traditional classroom rules and

norms established• Will - Will to cooperate through structures• Skill - Social Skills• Principles - P.I.E.S.• Structures - Teambuilding, Classbuilding, Mastery,

Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, and Information Sharing

Social SkillsListening Turn TakingHelping PraisingPolite Waiting PatienceStay on Task Following DirectionsReach Consensus Problem SolvingActive Listening TeamworkAsking for Help Providing ClarificationCompassion ComplementsContributing to Ideas Different PerspectivesNegotiating Critique Ideas of OthersResponsibility Disagree AppropriatelyAccepting Decisions CompromiseSharing Encouraging OthersAsking Questions Accepting ComplimentGreeting/Departing Being HonestBeing Flexible

• Four Basic Principles : P.I.E.S.

Positive Interdependence

Individual Accountability Equal Participation Simultaneous Interaction

StructuresClassbuilder – once a week

Teambuilder – twice a week

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Get students up Students moving around

Big group

fun No content For low students

Cooperative Learning

Research BasedIncrease student achievement by 26%

MarzanoCooperative Learning is not Group work!

Numbered Heads Together

1. What does P.I.E.S. stand for?2. Give an example of a quite signal.3. Cooperative learning is using a variety of

learning activities to improve students ______________ of a subject.

Numbered Heads Together

1. Teacher has students number off in their group.

2. The teachers poses a question.3. Students put heads together.4. Teacher calls time and spins to

see which team member will answer the question.

5. Team member that answers is can not have any help from team mates.

6. When groups complete task they celebrate with a group cheer

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Show Down

Cooperative Learning – Benefits for Students

1. What does P.I.E.S. stand for?2. Give an example of a quite signal.3. Each member of a team is responsible not

only for learning what is taught, but also for helping ______________ learn.

Show Down

1. Teacher reads question.2. Students write answer on

white boards making sure no one else sees their answer.

3. Teacher announces “Show Down”.

4. Students compare answers and makes sure everyone in the group has the right answer.

5. When groups complete task they celebrate with a group cheer

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Structure: Limited Resources

Limited Resources1. Divide class into groups of 3,4,

or 5

2. Give each group 1 pencil and 1 piece of paper with task written on it

3. When teacher announces go, students complete task

4. When groups complete task they celebrate with a group cheer

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Talking Chips

Tell your team how you are going to use cooperative

learning in your classroom.

Talking Chips1. Each students has one talking

chip.

2. Students place their chip in the center of the team table each time they talk.

3. Students can speak in any order, but can not speak a second time until all chips are in the center.

4. When all chips have been placed (everyone has spoken), the chips are all collected and anyone in any order can speak again.

5. When groups complete task they celebrate with a group cheer

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