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Roles
Teach these, display and revise regularly
Choose the roles that suit the activity
Modeling of the roles, skills etc
- Encouragement - teach students to give good feedback.
- Coach
- Equipment manager
- Reporters
Groups
- Groups of 4 ideal, changed every 5/6 weeks
- Top kids, middle and lower kids in each group.
- Face partners, shoulder partners - top/bottom kids sit diagonally so they don't work together.
Positives / Negatives / interesting of Co-operative Learning
- Needs to be taught, scaffolding, repetition of skills needed.
- Inclusiveness can be a +ve and a -ve
- How's is going to help my ...? raise student achievement? Must lead to an outcome.
- Transfer of skills, master in one area, link to other areas and practice.
- Take on things in bite sizes. Don't take on everything at once. It's a process and takes time to master.
- Increases the likelihood of full buy in - no, or little, opting out.
- Teaching social skills
- Grouping is important. Change groups after 6 weeks.
- Peer pressure encourages involvement.
- Opting out - students see that activities are fun, interactive, and they'll want to join in.
Activities
- The Freeze - take turns to lead a group of four. Each doing one dance move. New person leads after each 'freeze'.
- Think, Peer, Share
- Y-chart
- Quiz, Quiz, Trade - revision, definitions, basic facts, What am I?, vocabulary activities,
- Rules - 'Stand up, hand up, pair up', don't seek out friends, trading cards, 2 tips and re-ask, must have a specific answer.
- Start with simple answers to build up the routines
- Steer away from new knowledge
- Or for front loading
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