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Organizing Students to Interact with New Content
"Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth."
~ Sir Ken Robinson
Desired Effect
Students interact in small groups to process and understand new knowledge.
Purpose
- Actively processing new information in groups is crucial to understanding new content.
- Students are exposed to the thinking of others and can clarify their own understanding by being asked to verbalize it to others.
- Cooperative learning and other small group processes allow students to experience content from multiple perspectives.
- Group interaction not only facilitates knowledge development but also creates awareness that is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve without interaction.
- Collaborative settings provide students with multiple reference points, which foster their own personal processing of new content.
Teacher Evidence for Organizing Students to Interact with New Knowledge
Student Evidence for Organizing Students to Interact with New Knowledge
- Establishes routines and procedures for student grouping and interaction.
- Provides guidance on one or more conative skills.
- Becoming aware of the power of interpretations
- Avoiding negative thinking
- Taking various perspectives
- Interacting responsibly
- Handling controversy
- Provides guidance on one or more cognitive skills appropriate for the lesson.
- Purposefully move and work in groups.
- Act responsibly within the group.
- Actively ask and answer questions about the content.
- Add their perspectives to discussions.
- Attend to the cognitive skill(s).
Scale
Monitoring Strategies to Move to Applying
- Determine the organization of the groups to help students process the new content.
- After the organization has occurred, monitor the students and the classroom to ensure students are meeting the desired effect of interacting in small groups to process new knowledge.
Grouping Strategies
- Grouping using pre-assessment results
- Using playing cards
- Clock partners
- Predetermined partners
- Pairs
- Triads
- Apps
- Job Cards – Define the roles and responsibilities for groups
Resources
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