Cooperative Learning Structures!

1. Content Objective: Today I will learn how to incorporate Thinking Maps into Cooperative Learning structures. Cooperative Learning Structures! Language Objective: I will show I know this by discussing ways to use these strategies in my classroom.

2. Why Cooperative Learning? • North Carolina Standard Course of Study: English Language Arts, 2004 • 21st Century Standards

5. Why Cooperative Learning? • Academic Achievement (an average 28 percentile gain in cooperative learning classrooms) • Achievement Gap • Cross-Race Relations • Interpersonal Skills Kagan Cooperative Learning, Kagan, 2009

6. Verbal Processing We’ve Known This… Verbal & Visual Processing “I hear, and I forget I see, and I remember I do, and I understand” - Chinese Proverb Doing Average % of material retained after 24 hours

7. How Do We Get There?

8. Now let’s take a look at integrating Thinking Maps?

9. Focusing on Instructional Strategies Using Thinking Maps with Cooperative Learning Strategies Chapter 5 Pages 255 - 267

10. Page 255 THINKING MAPS AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING Building Thinking Maps in cooperative teams can be done at any stage of a lesson: during the set or diagnosis, instruction, student processing, closure and assessment. Students are more actively engaged when they work correctly in cooperative learning teams. Working in teams allows students to orally discuss academic content as they choose essential ideas and concepts to go in their maps.

11. Discussion First • Individual Accountability • Different colored markers • Thinking chips • Roles and responsibilities Page 257 THINKING MAPS AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

12. I Think I Think I Think I Think Page 256 THINKING MAPS AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING

13. Page 258 - 259 COOPERATIVE LEARNING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

14. Page 260 COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY MAP, MOVE, MAP

15. COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY SNEAK-A-PEAK Page 261

16. COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY MULTIPLE MAP MAKERS Page 262

17. COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY BUILD A MAP Page 263

18. COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY MAPPING AND MOVING Page 264

19. COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY ALL 8 MAPS Page 265

20. COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY THINKING ABOUT ________________ Page 266

21. Now you try it….. TALK WITH YOUR GRADE LEVEL ABOUT TOPICS IN YOUR CURRICULUM THAT WOULD LEND ITSELF TO SOME OF THE COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES DISCUSSED. BE PREPARED TO SHARE WITH THE GROUP!!

22. Exit Ticket On the index card at your table please write down the cooperative learning strategy you liked the most and how you will use it with a Thinking Map in your classroom. Also, please put down any questions you still have about using this instructional strategy with Thinking Maps.