Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning (Kagan)

ISBN

1-8

8794

3-35

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SIX KEYS TO COOPERATIVE LEARNING 1. Structure

Tells how the students (and teachers) are to interact with each other Pair Check Team Line-Ups Formations Choral Practice Team-Pair-Solo Rally Table Turn Toss

SIX KEYS TO COOPERATIVE LEARNING

2. Basic Principles P – positive

interdependence I – individual

accountability E – equal participation S – simultaneous

interaction

Teams present to other teams – not the entire classroom

SIX KEYS TO COOPERATIVE LEARNING

3. Team Building and Class Building

Get acquainted Team identity Mutual support Value differences Develop synergy

SIX KEYS TO COOPERATIVE LEARNING

4. Teams Heterogeneous Random Interest Homogeneous Self selection—BAD

Promote status hierarchies

SIX KEYS TO COOPERATIVE LEARNING

5. Management Mismatch between the

needs of the students and the structure of the classroom

Students by nature are active and interactive

Tradition classroom demands passive and isolated students

Learning occurs through doing and interaction

Students are encourage to interact, move, create and do

SIX KEYS TO COOPERATIVE LEARNING

6. Social Skills Students learn social

skills regardless Structured Natural

Approach Roles and gambits Modeling and

reinforcement Structures and

structuring Reflection and

planning time

One more video . . .

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