Getting Ready for Your Cooperative Learning
Assignment
Weeks before the CI
rotation activities
r 4-6
social skill builders with the children: use T-Charts for language
r teach
and practice group roles in your regular teaching activities
r watch
the children for evidence of their multiple abilities, record them
r post
norms and roles for kids to refer to
r prepare
kids for oncoming "collaborativeî" work;
use of "CI" language?
Days before doing the
CI rotation activities
Are you thinking about
r delegating
authority and mixed expectations for competence
r looking
for non-participators and thinking about their specific abilities
r evaluation
criteria tied to big idea/essential question
r performance
tasks to report out their findings from the activities
r slowly
working into teaching several different activities simultaneously
everyone
doing same thing; then two activities, four activities
r practice
multiple ability treatments
r practice
assigning competence
r write
activity, resource, and perhaps individual report cards
r gather
and assemble materials, set up boxes, create role cards
r draft
pre/post assessment
During the
Collaborative Rotation
Keep in mind the three
phases: orientation, rotation, and
wrap-ups
r carry
a clipboard, take notes re: abilities, norms, to use in O / WU
r keep
your interactions with groups shortm donÍt hover
r avoid
lecturing
r intervene
if you have to; use role players as first line of intervention
r reinforce
norms
no
one is as smart as all of us together
no
one is good at all the abilities
everyone
is good at something
you
have the right to ask anyone in your group for help
you
have the duty to assist anyone who asks for help
everyone
cleans up
r assign
competence: (1) name, (2) ability, (3) how it helps group goal
r have
kids report out following roles
r talk
about multiple abilities tied to specific activities
r call
attention to solutions you want everyone to hear
Ver 1.3
10/20/06
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