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ENGAGING STUDENTS THROUGH COOPERATIVE LEARNING: IDEAS FOR SUCCESS
Chris Jonassen
Troy Elementary School
WHAT MAKES A TEAM DIFFERENT THAN A GROUP?
How Are Teams Formed?
Variety of methods
Friendships or interests
Random teams
Teacher assigns students to teams
Heterogeneous - maximize the probability of peer tutoring and improving cross-race and cross-sex relations
WHAT IS COOPERATIVE LEARNING?
Cooperative Learning refers to a set of instructional methods in which students work in small, mixed-ability learning teams.
The students in each team are responsible not only for learning the material being taught, but also for helping their teammates learn.
WHY COOPERATIVE LEARNING?
WE LEARN: 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both see and hear 70% of what is discussed with others
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach someone else
William Glasser
ACCORDING TO FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES: THE TOP SKILLS SOUGHT BY EMPLOYERS
1970 READING
COMPUTATION
WRITING
2000 INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
PROBLEM SOLVING
TEAMWORK
1. Post four multiple choice responses, one in each corner.
2. Students select their responses and move.
3. Members of groups discuss their choices in round robin.
4. Spokespersons summarize/present group members’ thoughts.
EXPECTATIONS
Everyone will participate Students will be respectful of each other’s opinions
Stay on task Be mindful of time
4 CORNERS DIRECTIONS
1. Determine whether you Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, or Strongly Disagree with the statement
2. Write your response on a 3x5 card (2 min)
3. Move to the corner of the room that matches your response
4. While in your corner, you will have a small group discussion with your peers (round robin-everyone shares)
STATEMENT: TEACHING IS THE BEST PROFESSION!
4 CORNERS
Go to the corner…
ALTERNATIVE TO ROUND ROBIN
Talking Chips Students place their chip in the
center each time they talk; they cannot speak again until all chips are in the center and collected.
Response Mode Chips: Like Talking Chips but chips contain response modes: For examples, Summarizing, Giving an Idea, Praising an Idea.
STAND UP, HAND UP, PAIR UP/TIMED PAIR, SHARE
Stand up and find a partner within 10 seconds and slap hands (GENTLY) – refer to classroom norms
Partner with the longer hair is A, other person in B A tell B one way you could use 4 corners in your
classroom(45 seconds) Switch (45 seconds)
ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITY: THINK – WRITE – PAIR - COMPARE
Objectives:
to give rehearsal time, engage more students, and promote thoughtful responses
Directions: Present a problem, idea or question to be discussed Allow time for individuals to think in silence Allot time for students to write responses
(independently) Pair students Give time for partners to compare their responses Give the whole class time to discuss responses
INSIDE/OUTSIDE CIRCLE
Students in concentric circles rotate to face a partner to answer the teacher’s questions or those of the partner.
What does it look like? Watch these 2 videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNONGkX89yE
http://vimeo.com/53949503
GALLERY WALK ACTIVITY
1. Number off (1-5)
2. Each group starts at a different place
3. 2 minutes of silent reading and 3 minutes of discussion.
4. Write something your group learned from the reading.
HELPFUL HINTS FOR COOPERATIVE LEARNING
ACTIVITIES Monitor the noise level and have consequences when kids get too loud.
If you are asked the same question by two groups, you may want to stop the whole class to clarify and take additional questions.
Use a rubric or checklist for students to grade their group’s collaboration.
Assign a group monitor if you are concerned about off task behavior. Assign a role to each student.
COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES FROM TODAY’S
SESSION 4 corners Think. Write, Pair, Share Talking Chips Gallery Walk Stand up, Hand up, Pair up Timed Pair/Share Inside/Outside Circle
PLUS/DELTA
On your way out please complete one sticky for a plus and one for a delta on the chart paper
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