Elements of Cooperative Learning
Implementing Cooperative Learning
Peer Tutoring
Cooperative Learning and Teacher-Directed Instruction
Challenging Behaviors and Strategies
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a set of instructional strategies that facilitate student-to-student interactions which result in collective and individual achievement of lesson objectives
What is cooperative learning?
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easy and quick, adds variety and stimulation to the class, and avoids resistance because students perceive it as fair.
What is random assignment?
100
When a pair of students switches roles between being the tutor and the tutee
What is reciprocal tutoring?
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Teacher asks whole group questions about previously discussed material, calling on individual students to respond or using whole-group response techniques
What is reviewing?
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assign explicit roles and responsibilities to group members and/or ask the group to discuss the problem to ascertain why there is a lack of contribution
What is lack of contribution to the group?
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(a) a common task or activity suitable for group work, (b) small-group learning, (c) cooperative behavior, (d) positive interdependence, (e) individual accountability and responsibility, and (f) group processing
What are the elements of cooperative learning?
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In groups of four, students number themselves one to four. The teacher poses a question to the entire class. The students in each group put their heads together to determine the group answer.
What is numbered heads together?
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(1) student teams that compete weekly; (2) reciprocal tutoring procedures that are highly structured; (3) daily points, public posting, and reinforcement; and (4) direct practice of instructional content.
What are the main components of Classwide Peer Tutoring?
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Teacher asks whole group questions, calling on individuals or using whole-group response techniques
What is prerequisite check?
200
Place a student with withdrawn behavior in a group with students who are "nurturing and supportive" and/or assign a role or responsibility to the student that is "low risk" but requires participation
What is withdrawn behavior?
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group members receiving rewards based on a total of individual contributions
What is reward accountability?
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students are assigned to six-member teams with academic material broken into sections. Each team member reads his or her assigned section of the material and then meets with members of different teams who had been assigned the same material. Students then return to their original teams and teach their teammates about their section.
What is a Jig Saw?
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tutors and tutees not exchanging roles
What is nonreciprocal peer tutoring?
300
Teacher presents new information and monitors student understanding through questioning
What is instruction?
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assign "low risk" and appropriate roles and responsibilities and/or coach students in advance to make them experts in a specific area related to the assignment
What are students with low achievement?
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each student being accountable to the team for her portion of a team project.
What is task accountability?
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Ask students if they would prefer to work individually or cooperatively and what they liked best and least about working cooperatively
What is the evaluation of student's reactions to cooperative learning?
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one on one instruction, students learn how to teach
What are instructional benefits?
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Teacher usually models skill, procedure, or behavior
What is modeling?
400
pre teach other group members strategies for managing the student and/or use the disruptive situation to teach collaboration skills to all students
What are students with disruptive behavior?
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all students be held responsible for learning the material, as well as for contributing to the group to avoid the free ride effect
What is individual accountability?
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. Each student thinks about the answer for a specified amount of time. Students then form pairs and discuss their answers. The pairs are two members of a team of four. Following the Pair step, teams of four discuss the question or problem.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
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can reduce teacher workload, can be implemented with current curriculum
What are teacher benefits?
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teacher practices with large group and/or individuals work independently with teacher monitoring
What is guided practice?
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assign the student supportive, rather than domineering, roles
What are students who dominate the group?
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