What is cooperative learning

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• What is cooperative learning?
• A tool not an initiative
• Another strategy which you can use in the
  classroom along with all others
• Requires no additional preparation

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What does it do?

• Encourages cooperation
• Increases participation all pupils contribute
  to team
• Provides structures which help in classroom
  management
• Releases dependence on teacher
• Allows movement

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In a cooperative classroom there will inevitably
be more noise - students are active and want to
do and talk. We can manage this by having a
universally accepted signal The QUIET signal

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The Quiet Signal
Hands up
Face your teacher
Quiet
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Selector tool and timer tool

• ..\selector
• ..\TimerTools.exe

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• STEPS
• Teacher poses a problem to which there are
  MULTIPLE responses or SOLUTIONS
• 2. In pairs, students take turns STATING
  responses or solutions

How it is done In pairs, students alternate,
generating oral responses
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Rally Robin

• Where it can be used
• Ideal for getting pupils thinking about a
  topic that they might have not covered for a
  while, or ideal to start a lesson by recapping
  what they remember about the previous lesson.
  Useful for brainstorming technical terms.

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TRY ONE

• Name as many events in the Olympic Games as you
  can.
• WHO GOES FIRST?
• Person with the earliest birthday in the calendar
  year

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Some uses

• Hazards
• Body parts (in German or French)
• Countries conquered by Nazi Germany
• Regular er verbs
• Renaissance artists
• Religious festivals
• Sports that dont use a ball
• Factors that are changing the life span of
  humans?

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How it is done Partners take timed turns
listening and sharing. STEPS 1. Teacher
announces a topic and states HOW LONG each
student will have to share
2. Teacher provides THINK TIME 3. In pairs,
Partner A SHARES Partner B LISTENS 4. Partner B
RESPONDS 5. Partners switch roles
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Where it can be used Similar situations to
rally robin except students need more time to
think AND where the answers are longer Top
Tip Use a timer to countdown time remaining.
This focuses pupils and helps keep them on task.
It can also improve the pace of your lesson.
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TRY ONE

• If you could speak to anyone in history,
  living or dead, who would you want to speak with?
  What would you ask him/her?
• Think time
• Who goes first?
• The person living nearest to school

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Timed pair share

• Describe a persuasive device and explain why it
  is useful
• Think of some reflexive verbs and say what they
  mean?
• Problems found in 19th century industrial towns
• What types of damage occur from extreme weather
  patterns?
• Explain a technical term do you might need when
  designing a powerpoint presentation?

Timing
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Top Tip This can be played as a 'just a minute'
style game, as heard on radio 4. A pupil keeps
talking about a subject until they pause,
hesitate, or say erm. The the next pupil starts
talking. The winner is the pupil talking after a
the end of the minute / 2 minutes.
How it is done Similar to Rally Robin, but
involves students taking turns in a team, sharing
information in oral form. Where it can be used
Information can also be shared by passing a piece
of paper around the team and pupils adding a
different idea each time.
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• Factors affecting the rate of a chemical reaction
• Different ways of measuring the wealth of a
  country
• Phrases that you could use to describe how you
  are travelling in German

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Quiz Quiz Trade

• You must have notecards with questions on one
  side and answers on the other
• Students stand up, hands up pair up
• Partner A quizzes, B answers.
• Partner A coaches and praises
• Switch roles
• Partners trade cards and raise hands to find new
  partners

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Making the cards

• Students can make the cards themselves to test
  others
• Take a card and write on it a question from your
  own subject area
• What is the capital city of. ?
• What is the job of a white blood cell?
• Write the answer on the back.
• Stand up hand up pair up.

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• Mental maths problems
• Revision of any topic in any subject

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Looking for Ideas ?

• Chips Reading chips/Famous folks
  chips/Discussion chips/Event chips
• Website www.t2tuk.co.uk
• Cards for pupils to use /Images to put in your
  materials
• Higher level questions in ..

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Next

• With others from your department or a similar
  department Use the rest of the time to
• Come up with some activities you could try out
  over the next few weeks
• Make a set of Quiz quiz trade cards for one topic
  area
• Make up a class list on the selector tool or
  spend some time looking at the timer tools and
  think when you could use them.

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And finally

• If you would like any of the team (HV DE MJ) to
  spend some time working with you or a group of
  you in a department to help with ideas or
  supporting you using a structure in a class
  please contact us.
• If you would like to observe a lesson using
  cooperative structures please also contact one of
  us.