a set of instructional methods in which students work in small, mixed ability learning teams to achieve a common goal.
What is cooperative learning?
100
The two main components of active instruction
What are teach and model?
100
The "ideal" number of students in a team.
What is 4?
100
Pat on the back, kiss your brain, shine your halo, roller coaster...
What are cheers?
100
a simple questioning technique that keep all students involved in class discussions and provides an opportunity for every student to share an answer to every question.
What is think-pair-share?
200
The man/researcher who created the Cycle of Effective Instruction, leading to PowerTeaching.
Who is Dr. Robert Slavin?
200
the transition between active instruction and teamwork
What is guided practice?
200
The three components of teamwork in Powerteaching.
What are team huddle, team mastery, and class debriefing?
200
Used on a daily based to collect data, and at the end of a lesson cycle, to determine a good, great, or super team.
What is a team score sheet?
200
a flexible strategy that introduces the expectation that all students will be prepared to answer every question with the support and assistance of their team.
What is random reporter?
300
The number value for "a coil of rope", used in the Egyptian math activity.
What is 100?
300
three examples of an informal assessment.
What are fist of five, signal cards, exit ticket, thumbs up/down, K-W-L chart
300
Two resource books provided to you that include activities and strategies to support and guide cooperative learning.
What are the Cooperative Learning Handbook and Working Together companion guide.
300
Can be given in place of prep points
What are improvement points?
300
a simple tool that helps students identify the specific kinds of behaviors that accompany each team cooperation goal or conflict-resolution strategy.
What is a looks like/sounds like/feels like chart?
400
Two main types of informal assessments used in PowerTeaching.
What are minute-by-minute assessments and team checks?
400
A researcher who catergorized objectives from simple to complex or from factual to conceptual
Who is Benjamin Bloom?
400
The 5 team cooperation goals.
What are practice active listening, help and encourage others, everyone participates, explain your ideas/tell why, and complete tasks?
400
Five celebratory components used in PowerTeaching.
What are cheers, PREP points, Improvements Points, Team Celebration Points, and Team Certificates.
400
a cooperative learning technique developed by Elliot Aronson in which students leave their teams to work in expert groups to gather specific information or complete a portion of a task.
What is a Jigsaw?
500
The Three Central Concepts of Cooperative Learning.
What are individual accountability, team recognition, and equal opportunities for Success?
500
a model created by Norman Webb centered on the belief that the depth or complexity of knowledge needed to complete a specific task should be aligned to standards and assessment.
What is Depth of Knowledge (DoK)?
500
The stages of group development.
What are forming, storming, norming, performing?
500
The 6 primary purposes of assessment.
What are feedback to teachers, feedback to students, information to parents, information for selection and certification, information for accountability, incentives to increase student effort?
500
a strategy used to have a group of students correctly model what a specific team cooperation goal looks like and sounds like.