TERMS
Controlled Floundering
When a student is trying to master a topic that doesn't come naturally to them, it is controlled because the teacher is there to help them understand
General description of STAD
Teaching, team study, testing, team recognition
(students not required to become experts)
What did Slavin do?
develop cooperative learning model with different performance levels within groups, competition between individuals and groups, traditional content mastery
Who puts more emphasis on Creative Problem Solving
Kohn, Slavin puts more emphasis on traditional school learning
General Description of TGT
Teaching, team study, tournaments, team recognition
(no individual testing, students not become experts)
Is the diversity of students, in cooperative groups, heavily emphasized by Kohn and Slavin?
Yes, however, diversity is harder to garuantee when students get to pick their own groups, like they do in Kohn's model
General Description of Jigsaw II
Teaching, reading, Expert group discussion, team reporting, testing, team recognition
(student required to become experts)
Why does Slavin use competition in his model?
Does Kohn? Why or why not?
Slavin believes this will make the group work closer together and think more critically off one another. Kohn does not use competition, he views it as comething that would be counter productive in a group, making students in the same group argue
Of the Jigsaw II, TGT, and STAD which places the least emphasis on individual accountability? And what do the other two do?
STAD puts the least emphasis on individual accountability, Jigsaw II works to develop students into experts, TGT involves competition between individuals of different groups
Who puts more emphasis on student choices and why?
Kohn, they will have more ability to be creative with the compostiton with their group and have more chemistry
How are Kohn and Slavin different in their views on reinforcement in cooperative learning?
Kohn thinks reinforcement needs to come from within an individual, Slavin thinks the teacher can help the student to the answer but not give it directly to them