Social Interaction Methods Cooperative Learning Strategies

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Social Interaction MethodsCooperative Learning
Strategies

• Group Laura, Shayne, and Kenny

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What are Cooperative Learning Structures?

• Structures are very specific cooperative learning
  strategies that teachers can use to organize
  interactions between students.
• Most structures can be used with almost any
  academic content, but some structures are better
  than others for certain tasks.
• Some structures regulate interaction between
  pairs, some are best for team work, and others
  involve the entire class.
• The key is learning which structure is
  best-suited for a particular instructional
  purpose.

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What can you do with Cooperative Learning
Structures

• Clock Buddies
• Roundtable
• Six Thinking Hats
• Since you know the meaning of cooperative
  learning structures, can you think of any others
  that we didnt just mention?

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Clock Buddies

• Definition
• A cooperative learning pairing model, based upon
  the face of a clock. Students are paired with 12
  different students for each hour on the clock.
  Teachers may instruct students to work in groups
  according to their clock buddy on a specific hour.

• Guidelines for Design
• Homogeneous Pairs
• The teacher may assign each child 12 clock
  buddies and provide the completed handout.
• Each hour may then correlate to a specific
  content skill Reading 1 oclock, Math 2
  oclock, English 3 oclock

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Benefits

• Students can form partnerships quickly
• Students have the opportunity to work with
  different partners
• Prevents hurt feelings
• Students think its fun

• Heterogeneous Pairs
• Each student is given a clock handout.
• The student may then ask 12 classmates to be
  his/her buddy for one of the hours on the clock.
  
• The student buddies must sign-up for the same
  hour on each others handouts

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Were you Listening?

• Can you name two benefits from using the clock
  buddy approach?
• Here are some sites to check out for clock
  buddies.
• Mrs. Atkinsons Reading Room www.westampton.k12.nj
  .us/datkinson/clock_buddies.htm
• Mrs. Thonus 3rd Grade Stars
• http//myschoolonline.com/page/0,1871,2486-196464-
  2-55490,00.html
• www.huffenglish.com

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Roundtable

• Definition
• Cooperative learning strategy used to engage a
  group of students in the initial analysis of a
  teacher-posed question.

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Description of Procedure

• Teacher poses a question that can be answered in
  multiple ways.
• Students are divided into small groups.
• One piece of paper and one pen given to each
  group.
• First student writes one response on paper AND
  reads it aloud to group.

• First student then passes paper to the next
  student on his/her left.
• This student may write a response or say Pass.
• The paper is then passed to all the students
  until time is called.
• Groups may discuss responses or share with large
  group.

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Benefits

• Each students response is valued equally
• All students have an opportunity to contribute
  ideas
• Promotes ability to brainstorm, generate
  questions, and provide creative answers

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Can anyone name any other benefits on the
roundtable that we might not of talked about?A
place you might want to check out.NTLFs
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)www.ntlf.com/html
/lib/faq/cl-utenn.htm
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Six Thinking Hats

• Definition
• Cooperative learning role-play strategy used to
  help students respect and explore a variety of
  perspectives regarding a decision-making process.

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Description of Procedure

• Students are divided into groups of six.
• Each student in the group is then assigned one of
  the six colored hats, which represents a specific
  perspective they will adopt while participating
  in the group activity.
• Teacher may provide brief description and/or
  appropriate questions for each hat.
• The group then analyses and discusses the group
  activity by responding not as themselves, but as
  the perspective/identity of the hat each is
  wearing.

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The Six Hats

• White Neutral , focus on information,
  objective, FACTS
• Red Fire, focus on intuition, subjective,
  FEELINGS
• Black Judges robe, focus on the negative,
  JUDGEMENTAL
• Yellow Sunshine, focus on positive, STRENGTHS
• Green Vegetation, focus on possibilities,
  CREATIVE
• Blue Cool, focus on process, THINKING

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Benefits

• Multiple perspectives are realized and valued
• Students participate without risk of personal
  opinions
• Engaged in multilayered thinking processes
• Improve communication skills
• Improve decision-making skills

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What color hat would you like to wear, and
why?More information about your
hats.www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_bono_si
x_thinking_hats.html
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Benefits of cooperative learning strategies

• Allows students to work with different partners
  (socially beneficial)
• All student have the ability to contribute ideas
• Promotes students ability to brainstorm and
  generate questions