1. Why does Cooperative Learning Work?
Kagan Chapters 6 and 12

2. BIM 1-3, Lesson Planning Review
The team member with the brightest colored shirt goes first and answers the first quiz question. Then pass the quiz clockwise to the next team member. Continue to pass the quiz until all questions are answered correctly.
First team to finish correctly gets CANDY!
Team Quiz
BIM 1-3, Lesson Planning Review

3. FOCUS Open your Kagan books to 6.25
On scratch paper list all the structures you have used in this class or another.
PAIRS COMPARE!
Rally Robin your answers with your shoulder partner.
Teacher calls “time”.
Go with your partner to find another pair and compare answers.
FOCUS

4. Cooperative learning defined!
A set of instructional strategies which include cooperative _____-______ interaction over subject matter as an _______ part of the learning process.
Instructional Delivery

5. 1. Structures
The way a teacher organizes the interaction in the classroom at any moment creating student learning experiences!
Cooperative learning structure is
Content-free
Repeatable
Implements the PIES

6. Structures Get in groups of 3.
Compare teachers A, B and C:
Teacher A=Traditional
Teacher B=Group Work
Teacher C=Structures
Get in groups of 3.
Decide which group member has Teacher A, B, or C.
Share with each other how “your” teacher instructs. CL 6.2 and 6.3
Discuss which one is more effective and why.

7. Why Structures? Interpersonal Academic Classbuilding Teambuilding
Social Skills
Communication Skills
Decision-Making
Knowledgebuilding
Procedural learning
Processing Information
Thinking Skills
Presenting Information
Interpersonal
Academic
CL page

8. Keys to success in Cooperative Learning
Structures (chapter 6)
Teams (chapter 7)
Management (chapter 8)
Classbuilding (chapter 9)
Teambuilding (chapter 10)
Social Skills (chapter 11)
PIES (chapter 12)
Keys to success in Cooperative Learning

9. 2. TEAMS How many students? Even # is best
Types: heterogeneous and homogenous, student chosen, teacher chosen, random
How long together?
2. TEAMS

10. 3. WILL . . . to cooperate Teambuilding Classbuilding Get acquainted
Forge identity
Promote support
Value difference
Classbuilding
Builds a community of learners
Promotes environment of caring, cooperation, kindness, and respect
3. WILL to cooperate

11. Noise
Room arrangement
Materials
Preemptive strike
4. MANAGEMENT

12. How? Through structures, roles, modeling, reinforcement, reflection
Students learn to
Listen
Lead
Follow
Speak
Motivate
Accept rejection
Disagree
Resolve conflict
5. SOCIAL SKILLS

13. 6. Basic Principles: PIES
Chapters 12
6. Basic Principles: PIES

14. So how do we properly implement?!
“Cooperative learning, WHEN PROPERLY IMPLEMENTED, is a powerful instructional approach resulting in a spectrum of positive outcomes.” (CL 12.1)
So how do we properly implement?!

16. Basic principles Positive Interdependence Individual Accountability
Equal participation
Simultaneous interaction

17. Guided Practice
Each team member takes responsibility for one of the PIES principles.
Jot down descriptors of your principle.
Make a stack of descriptors using textbook. (CL12.2, 12.8, 12.14, 12.19)
Mix up descriptors.
Round Robin reading descriptors and the other teammates decide which PIES principle is being described.
Describe & Quiz

18. When four basic principles are present, cooperative learning consistently
Produces academic gains
Improves race relations
Develops social skills
Educates for character
Promotes self-esteem
Enhances class climate
Fosters leadership
Fosters teamwork skills

19. Positive Interdependence
Match the questions you would ask of a lesson to ensure all four basic principles of cooperative learning are present (PIES)
Is help needed from members in the group for individual student success?
Is each student responsible for a unique portion of the group product?
Do all members contribute evenly to the group assignment or product?
What percentage of the class is overly active at one time?
Positive Interdependence
Individual Accountability
Equal Participation
Simultaneous Interaction
Independent Practice

20. Why Does Cooperative Learning Work?
Reinforcement p
Modeling 4.6
Mediation – ZPD 4.7
Brain Based
Maslow 4.13
Learning Styles 4.18
Why Does Cooperative Learning Work?

21. On a note card explain why cooperative learning works and how you will use it in your classroom.
Closure

22. Mix-Freeze-Pair (Class Building)
Circulate until the instructor calls “FREEZE”
Favorite restaurant in Stephenville
Favorite vacation
Name of my first pet
First car (color and make)
Middle name