1. Kagan Strategies By
Gil Trevino

2. Cooperative learning
Teaching strategy involving small team of students.
Usually students of varying ability are grouped together.
Teammates are responsible for all team members progress.

3. Why Use Cooperative learning?
Promote student learning
Increase student learning
Develop learning skills
Develop social skills
Enhance learning experience
Promote positive relationships.

4. How does cooperative learning help your classroom?
Promotes positive interdependence
Individual and group accountability
Supports success of group
Teaches communication skills to members
Promotes group processing

5. How can you incorporate cooperative learning?
Jigsaw
Groups are established
Each person is assigned unique material to learn
Students collaborate with other students with the same material.
Decisions are made on how to teach the subject.
“experts” teach other groups

6. Think-Pair-Share Students think individually about a question.
Students share with partner and exchange thoughts
The pairs share responses with other pairs or the entire group.

7. Three Step Interview
Each member of a team chooses another member to be a partner
Individuals interview partners by asking clarifying questions.
Partners reverse roles
Members share their partner’s response to the team.

8. Round Robin – Brainstorming
Class is divided into small groups ( 4 to 6)
One person is appointed as the recorder
A question with many different answers is posed and time is given to think about answers.
Members of the team share responses in a round robin style
Recorder writes down responses

9. Three minute review
Teachers stop during a lecture or review and give teams three minutes to review what has been said.
Students may ask clarifying questions or answer questions.

10. Numbered Heads Together
Teams of four are established
Each member is given a number of 1, 2, 3 or 4
Questions are asked of the group
Groups work together to answer the question
Teacher calls out number ( 2) and each person with that number is asked to give and answer.

11. Team Pair Solo Students do problems as a team.
Students then do problems with a partner.
Students Do problems on their own

12. Circle the sage
Teacher calls on a students seeking which students have special knowledge of a subject.
The sages spread out in the room
Students surround the sage while the sage explains what they know while students listen, ask questions and take notes.
Students return to teams to share what they learned from the sage they received information from.

13. Partners Class is divided into teams of four.
Partners move to one side of room
Half of each team is given an assignment to master and to be able to teach the other half.
Partners work to learn and can consult with other partners working on the same material.
Teams go back with each set of partners teaching the other set.
Partners quiz and tutor teammates.

15. More Ideas?
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