1. Engagement Strategies for ESL Students
In the Social Studies Classroom
Introduce selves, background

2. Check In 1) On a Post-It note, please write
Name
What you know about cooperative learning
2) Place your Post-It on the smiley face continuum. 
While participants are posting, observe where they’re placing their Post-Its and what they already know to draw upon throughout presentation.
Kim

3. Agenda Sharing Strategies What is Cooperative Learning? (Frayer model)
Stand Up-Hand Up-Pair Up (SUHUPU)
Timed-Pair-Share
What is Cooperative Learning? (Frayer model)
Review & Assessment Strategies
Fan & Pick
Rally Coach
Quiz-Quiz-Trade
Lesson Planning
Lindsay

4. SUHUPU Stand Up (Push chair in) Hand Up
Pair Up with someone you don’t know
Stand back-to-back and wait for further instructions
Kim

5. Timed-Pair-Share 30 seconds each Name School Courses
What you hope to get out of today
Lindsay

6. Partner with another pair and introduce one another.
Share partner’s name, school, courses, & hope for today
Gather your belongings and sit in this group of 4
Before moving on, call on a few participants and prompt them to share what their partners said (hopes for today) (Kim)

7. Stand Up-Hand Up-Pair Up
Students stand up, put their hands up, and quickly find
a partner.
Teacher says, “_____ up, _____ up, and _____ up!”
Students stand up and keep one _____ in the air until they find the _______ partner who’s not a teammate.
Teacher asks a ________ or gives an assignment.
Teacher provides _____ _____.
_____ share using:
Rally Robin
Timed-Pair-Share
Rally Coach
Kim

8. Stand Up-Hand Up-Pair Up
Students stand up, put their hands up, and quickly find
a partner.
Teacher says, “Stand up, hand up, and pair up!”
Students stand up and keep one hand in the air until they find the closest partner who’s not a teammate.
Teacher asks a question or gives an assignment.
Teacher provides think time.
Pairs share using:
Rally Robin
Timed-Pair-Share
Rally Coach

9. SUHUPU Management Tips
Give think time
Use “Write-Pair-Share” before SUHUPU
½ students up
Students stand back-to-back
Discourage “magnets”
Encourage “shadows”
Kim

10. Partners take timed turns listening and sharing.
Timed-Pair-Share
Partners take timed turns listening and sharing.
Teacher announces a topic and states _____ _____ each student will have to share.
Teacher provides _____ _____.
In pairs, Partner A ______; Partner B _______.
Partner B ________.
Thank you for sharing!
One thing I heard you say was…
One think I learned listening to you…
Partners switch roles.
Lindsay

11. Partners take timed turns listening and sharing.
Timed-Pair-Share
Partners take timed turns listening and sharing.
Teacher announces a topic and states how long each student will have to share.
Teacher provides think time.
In pairs, Partner A shares; Partner B listens.
Partner B responds.
Thank you for sharing!
One thing I heard you say was…
One think I learned listening to you…
Partners switch roles.
Lindsay

12. Timed-Pair-Share Management Tips
* Helps ESL students acquire and use language*
Provide think time/writing time
State who goes first (taller, shorter, older, younger, most brothers, etc.)
Model response modes
Paraphrase
Compliment
Respond (question, comment, etc.)
Use a timer
Can be used standing in class or seated as team
Lindsay

13. What is Cooperative Learning?
Definition
a teaching strategy in which teams,
each with students of different levels
of ability, use a variety of
learning activities to
improve their
understanding of a
subject
Characteristics
Positive Interdependence
Individual Accountability
Equal Participation
Simultaneous Interaction
Cooperative
Learning
Examples
Timed-Pair-Share
Rally Coach
Fan & Pick
Quiz-Quiz-Trade
Step-by-step structures that fulfill PIES
Non-Examples
“Talk to your neighbor about…”
“Check your answers with your neighbor.”
Answer these questions at your table.
Review vocabulary.
Lindsay

14. Students play a card game to respond to questions.
Fan & Pick (4 students)
Students play a card game to respond to questions.
_______ __ holds question cards in a fan and says, “Pick a card, any card!”
_______ __ picks a card, reads the question out loud and allows five seconds of Think Time.
Student #3 _______ the question.
Student #4 ________ to the answer:
For right or wrong answers, Student #4 checks and then either praises or ______________.
For higher-level thinking questions that have no right or wrong answer, Student #4 does not check for correctness, but _______ and paraphrases the thinking that went into the answer.
5. Students rotate roles, one person clockwise for each new round.
Kim

15. Students play a card game to respond to questions.
Fan & Pick (4 students)
Students play a card game to respond to questions.
Student #1 holds question cards in a fan and says, “Pick a card, any card!”
Student #2 picks a card, reads the question out loud and allows five seconds of Think Time.
Student #3 answers the question.
Student #4 responds to the answer:
For right or wrong answers, Student #4 checks and then either praises or tutors/coaches.
For higher-level thinking questions that have no right or wrong answer, Student #4 does not check for correctness, but praises and paraphrases the thinking that went into the answer.
5. Students rotate roles, one person clockwise for each new round.
Kim

16. Fan & Pick (2 students) Student #1 fans. Student #2 picks and reads.
Student #1 answers.
Student # 2 tutors or praises.
Students switch roles.
Kim

17. Conduct Fan & Pick at your tables to get to
know one another.
Youngest player starts with #1
Roles rotate clockwise.
Lindsay

18. Fan & Pick Management Tips
State who goes first
Discourage magnets
Encourage shadows
Model & Post directions
Cards prewritten or number cards matched with overhead
Lindsay

19. Round Table Variations
Pair (2)
Team (3-4)
Oral
Rally Robin
Round Robin
Written
Rally Table
Round Table
Rally Coach
Simultaneous Round Table
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Lindsay
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20. How could you use Fan & Pick in your classroom?
2 minutes
Conduct Round Robin at your table.
Round Robin
Present task (Lindsay)
Share out one idea from each group and record on Post-It paper. (Kim)

21. Rally Robin & Round Robin
“I share, you share.”
Teacher poses a problem to which there are ________ possible responses or ________.
In pairs, students take turns ______ responses or solutions.
“I share, you share,
everyone shares.”
Teacher assigns a topic or question with ______ possible answers.
In teams, students respond ______, each in turn taking about the same amount of time.
Kim

22. Rally Robin & Round Robin
“I share, you share.”
Teacher poses a problem to which there are multiple possible responses or solutions.
In pairs, students take turns stating responses or solutions.
“I share, you share,
everyone shares.”
Teacher assigns a topic or question with multiple possible answers.
In teams, students respond orally, each in turn taking about the same amount of time.
Kim

23. Partners take turns, one solving a problem while the other coaches.
Rally Coach
Partners take turns, one solving a problem while the other coaches.
Set-up: One set of high-consensus problems and one pencil per pair.
Partner A solves the first _______.
Partner B watches and listens, ______, and praises.
Partner B ______ the problem.
Partner A watches and listens, checks, and _______.
Repeat starting at _____ __.
Lindsay

24. Partners take turns, one solving a problem while the other coaches.
Rally Coach
Partners take turns, one solving a problem while the other coaches.
Set-up: One set of high-consensus problems and one pencil per pair.
Partner A solves the first problem.
Partner B watches and listens, checks, and praises.
Partner B solves the problem.
Partner A watches and listens, checks, and praises.
Repeat starting at step 1.
Lindsay

25. Rally Coach
DIRECTIONS: Label each statement with a + if the vocabulary word is used correctly or a – if the vocabulary word is used incorrectly.
Example:
The state of Texas produces many goods, such as oil, beef, concrete, and computer chips.
2. Many countries export these goods from Texas.
Lindsay & Kim

26. How did it go?
Directions
The Activity
Lindsay & Kim

27. Rally Coach Management Tips
Model
Coaching can be hinting or teaching
1 paper per pair
1 pencil per pair, or different colors
Sit side-by-side
Debrief with students what worked
Use it as guided practice before independent practice
Use it as a homework check before selecting examples to model
Lindsay

28. 2 minutes: Rally Table w/ shoulder partner ways to use Rally Coach
General Applications
Vocabulary
Maps
Timelines
Fill-in-blank worksheet
T/F worksheet
Steps in a process
Charts & graphs
Practice TAKS questions
Specific Content
Share ideas and post on Chart Paper (Kim)

29. Quiz-Quiz-Trade
Students quiz a partner, get quizzed by a partner, and then trade cards to repeat the process with a new partner.
Stand Up- _____ __- Pair Up.
Partner A _______.
Partner B _______.
Partner A ______ or ___________.
______ roles.
Partners _____ cards.
______ steps 1-6 a number of times.
Kim

30. Quiz-Quiz-Trade
Students quiz a partner, get quizzed by a partner, and then trade cards to repeat the process with a new partner.
Stand Up- Hand Up- Pair Up.
Partner A quizzes.
Partner B answers.
Partner A checks or paraphrases.
Switch roles.
Partners trade cards.
Repeat steps 1-6 a number of times.
Kim

31. Principles of Constitution Quiz-Quiz-Trade
Model with cards (Kim)

32. Quiz-Quiz-Trade Management Tips
Model movement and praise
Decide who goes first
½ class up
Students write answer before first round or provide answer on cards
Get a pack of index cards and # 1-20
List Qs on overhead
Lindsay

33. Lesson Planning
Where can I incorporate ONE of the engagement strategies we learned and practiced today?
What questions will I ask/prompts will I use?
What tools do I need to organize or create?
Lindsay & Kim

34. Check Out
Move your Post-It to your new level of comfort incorporating cooperative learning and engagement strategies with ESL students.
Lindsay

35. SUHUPU & Timed-Pair-Share
Stand back-to-back
1 minute: Timed-Pair-Share
What will you take back and use?
How will you use it?
(Think Time)
Shorter person goes first
Kim & Lindsay

36. Exit Ticket: 2 & a Wish
On a notecard
Lindsay