Cooperative Learning

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Cooperative Learning
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Shall We??
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Forming the Teams
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Clearly define the problem

• Your team must build a boat of aluminum which
  will hold the most pennies while free-floating in
  water. (10 cm x 10 cm)

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Clearly define the problem

• The last pennies held for 3 seconds without
  causing the boat to sink is the official weight
  held by the boat.

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Clearly define the problem

• The boat holding the most weight wins.

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Design 1- 15

• Make 2 drawings of the boat you want your group
  to build
• side view top
  down view

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Design 2- 15

• Write why your design will hold the most pennies
• I think that my design will hold the most pennies
  because it has a rounded bottom like a kayak and
  everyone knows how well kayaks float. Also, I am
  making the sides very high so the water will have
  a hard time coming in. Too, when

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Rules of engagement

• With respect
• Listen without interrupting initially
• Ask for clarification
• Let each member of the group present ideas before
  criticizing
• Criticize ideas not people
• Be kind(body language, tone, intent)
• Model

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Choose a final design

• Through consensus choose a design and construct
  it.
• Before competition, the judge reserves the right
  to crush any boat and ask any group member to
  build a new identical boat from fresh materials
  (Yes, this means that you need to know how the
  boat was constructed!!).

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Choose a final design (contd)

• Any group member must be ready to explain why the
  groups design was chosen and why they think the
  boat will hold the most pennies.
• Each member of the group will receive an
  individual score representing their work based on

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Your Individual Grade (IG60)for Working as a
Team Member

• Could you rebuild the boat?
• Could you explain the boats design?
• Did you support your group during construction of
  the boat?
• Did you work to facilitate your groups success?
• Did you follow the Rules of Engagement?

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Team Grade 5

• Is everyone on the team able to articulate the
  rationale for the boat design?
• Can everyone build the boat?

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Load the Boat

• Time to load your boat! Choose a team member to
  load 1 penny at a time into your boat until it
  sinks (trash talking is permissible but the
  Rules of Engagement are still in effect).
• Causing waves is strictly prohibited.

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Team Analysis

• Discuss with your team what happened and how to
  make it better.
• Everyone should be able to explain the re-design
  rationale.

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Jigsaw!!

• All As meet to talk about changes they are
  making.
• All Bs meet to talk about changes they are
  making.
• All Cs meet to talk about changes they are
  making.

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Reconvene for Round 2

• The team builds another boat (same rules)
• The higher the class average of pennies held the
  higher your score for this portion. This is your
  class cooperation score (CC5).

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Group Processing Time

• How well did we follow the Rules of Engagement?
  scale of 1-10 (1 is poor and 10 is excellent)
• What group behaviors worked well?
• What did not work well?
• What could be done to change the things that did
  not work?

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Your score

• Design 1 Design 2 IG Team CC
• 15 15 60 5
  5

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Cooperative Learning
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What is it?

• Purposeful student groups that meet definite
  criteria
• P ositive interdependence
• I ndividual accountability
• G roup processing
• S ocial skills
• Face to Face interaction

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Positive Interdependence

• All members believe that one person can not
  succeed unless the group succeeds.
• If one person fails everyone has failed.
• Each members efforts are important.

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Individual Accountability

• Individual performance is assessed and shared
  with the group as a whole.
• Behavior can change or persist accordingly

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Group Processing

• Students work as a team, share resources,
  encourage each other, teach each other, help each
  other problem solve.

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Social Skills

• Necessary social skills must be articulated and
  taught.
• Criticize ideas not people
• Listen before speaking
• Dont interrupt
• Encourage interaction
• Ask for help

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Face to Face Interaction

• Members of group need time to talk and interact
  with each other and with you.

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How to Measure Success?

• When every group member feels that they learned
  more because of the group you have created a
  successful cooperative learning group.

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Instructor Requirements?

• Relinquish the floor
• Plan ahead
• Be creative
• Be available
• Learn from failure

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Questions/ Comments?