Cooperative Learning Structures!

Language Objective: I will show I know this by

discussing ways to use these strategies

in my classroom.

Content Objective: Today I will learn how to

incorporate Thinking Maps into Cooperative

Learning structures.

Why Cooperative Learning?

North Carolina Standard Course of Study: English Language Arts, 2004

21st Century Standards

Why Cooperative Learning?Academic Achievement (an average 28 percentile gain in cooperative learning classrooms)Achievement GapCross-Race RelationsInterpersonal Skills

Kagan Cooperative Learning, Kagan, 2009

We’ve Known This…

“I hear, and I forgetI see, and I remember

I do, and I understand” - Chinese Proverb

Lecture 5 %Reading

10 %

Audiovisual 20%

Demonstration 30%

Discussion Group 50%

Practice By Doing 75%

Teaching Others/ Immediate Use of Learning 90%

Verbal Processing

Verbal & Visual

Processing

Doing

Average % of material retained after 24 hours

How Do We Get There?SCOS / 21st Century

Standards

ClassroomEnvironme

nt

Physical Social

Instructional

Strategies

Cooperative Learning

Now let’s take a look at integrating Thinking Maps?

Focusing on Instructional Strategies

Using Thinking Maps with

Cooperative Learning

StrategiesChapter 5

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THINKING MAPS AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Building Thinking Maps in cooperative teams can be done at any stage of a lesson: during the set or diagnosis, instruction, student processing, closure and assessment.

Working in teams allows students to orally discuss academic content as they choose essential ideas and concepts to go in their maps.

Students are more actively engaged when they work correctly in cooperative learning teams.

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THINKING MAPS AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Discussion First

Individual Accountability•Different colored markers•Thinking chips•Roles and responsibilities

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THINKING MAPS AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

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COOPERATIVE LEARNING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

MAP, MOVE, MAP

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SNEAK-A-PEAKPage 261

COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

MULTIPLE MAP MAKERSPage 262

COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

BUILD A MAPPage 263

COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

MAPPING AND MOVINGPage 264

COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

ALL 8 MAPSPage 265

COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

THINKING ABOUT ________________

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COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY

Now you try it…..TALK WITH YOUR GRADE LEVEL ABOUT TOPICS

IN YOUR CURRICULUM THAT WOULD LEND ITSELF TO SOME OF THE COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES DISCUSSED.

BE PREPARED TO SHARE WITH THE GROUP!!

Exit TicketOn the index card at your table please write down

the cooperative learning strategy you liked the most and how you will use it with a Thinking Map in your classroom.

Also, please put down any questions you still have about using this instructional strategy with Thinking Maps.