Cooperative Learning …

1. Cooperative Learning … … & Self Regulated Learning

2. Thousands of ideas are out there 1000’s of good ideas … find one and play with it

6. Overview of Instructional Intelligence • Instructional intelligence involves: • Knowledge of the learner • Knowledge of curriculum • Knowledge of assessment • Knowledge of instruction • Knowledge of change • Knowledge of systemic change

7. Knowledge of instruction • Instructional concepts • Instructional skills • Instructional tactics • Instructional Strategies • Instructional Organizers

8. Advance Organizer Cooperative Learning is NOT a skill, tactic or strategy. Cooperative Learning is a belief system related to how students learn One of 3 options: all three are useful • Individual • competitive • cooperative

9. Keep in Mind ... Research • Most researched of all instructional methods • Has largest effect on higher level thinking • When not done properly, group work is one of the worst approaches to learning

10. This grade 9 student (female) doe not enjoy group work. Why? Student: “The teacher put me with four boys because they never do anything and he (the teacher) knows that I will make sure the project gets done; I did all the work and they did nothing and we all got the same mark.”

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17. Back Drop- Multiple Intelligence • Musical • Spatial • Bodily Kinesthetic • Inter Personal - #1 Pred of Success • Intra Personal • Logical Mathematical • Linguistic • Naturalistic

18. Perspective – 3 Dimensions Structures (300) Process (5 Basic Elements Safety (Tribes)

19. Cooperative Learning Tactics (less complex) Strategies (more complex) 5 Basic Elements TGT Jigsaw Team Analysis Academic Controversy Group Investigation Place Mat Think Pair Share One Stray Rest Stay 2/3 Person Interview Corners Inside Outside Circles

21. Focus on Bloom’s Taxonomy Side A Side B Framing Questions Think Pair Share Place Mat Jigsaw 5 Basic Elements Teams Games Tournaments KWL chart • Ranking Ladder • Venn Diagram • Concept Attainment • Mind Maps • PMI • Academic Controversy • Group Investigation • Concept Maps • Flow Charts

22. Think Pair Share - Rubric

23. Framing Questions - Rubric

24. Responding to Student Responses - Rubric

25. Thinking - Rubric

27. Collaborative Skills – Key for Self Regulated Learning 3 Genres • Social Skills • Communication Skills • Critical Thinking Skills Can you identify 3 of each?

28. Examples Social: Taking Turns, Using Quiet Voices, Equal Participation, Being Polite, Using Names Communication: Attentive Listening, Suspending Judgment, Probing for Clarification, Paraphrasing Critical Thinking: Examining Both Sides of an Issue, Considering All Factors, Assessing the Goals and Objectives of Others

29. Tribes • Attentive Listening – Communication Skill • Appreciation Statements – Social Skill • Right to Pass – Social Skill • Mutual Respect – Not a skill – made up of many other skills

31. What Students Say …

32. What Students Say …

33. “Omar, I have it too … a strange feeling like we are going in circles.”

34. Johnsons’ 5 Basic Elements • Individual Accountability • Face to Face Interaction • Collaborative Skills (teach) • Process Academic and Collaborative Taks • Positive Interdependence (9 types) • Only one you have to have ‘Goal Positive Interdependent