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| Planning for small gorup work |
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- Everyone is:
- participating
- listening
- taking turns
- working quietly
- sharing ideas
- asking for information and explanations
- Avoid Distractions
- Space/Sound control
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| Identifying group members |
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- Student self-selection
- Random Assignment
- Assignment by special interest
- Assignment by backgrounds
- Assignment by behavioral characteristics
- Assignment by special abilities and skills
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- Can gather systematic data on their personal preferance for group mates
- A diagram of the pattern of children's social choices among their classmates
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| Cooperative (or collaborative) Learning |
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| Cooperative learning allows students to work together and depend on each other |
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| Grouping based on PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT goals, roles, and resources |
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- Part of Cooperative learning
- Pull students together to work together from different racial groups on an assignment
- Tears down racial boundaries
- No single member of the group is supplied with enough information to solve the problem alone
- Each student is dependant on others to complete the big picture
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| Grouping based on PEOPLE WITH THE SAME goals, roles, and resources |
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- the time that you should WAIT on a student's answer before moving on.
- 5 seconds or longer
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- Focus attention on the important objectives of a lesson or activity.
- Encourage students to participate in discussions
- Types of questions to avoid: YES AND NO questions
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