Cooperative Learning Strategies

ORID Focused Conversation

Form teams of 2 - 3
Step 1: One team member presents work to their teammates.
Step 2: Non-presenting members ask questions about the work from the ORID grid and record the presenting members responses.
Step 3: Non-presenting members finish notes and give them to the presenting member.
Continue until each team member has presented their work.

ORID Grid

1. Objective: Facts, Data, Senses

Objective questions related to thought, sight, hearing, touch, and smell are used to draw out observable data about the experience.

Examples:

What images or scenes do you recall?
Which people, comments, ideas, or words caught your attention, and why?
What sounds do you recall?
What tactile sensations do you recall?

3. Interpretive: So What?

Interpretive questions relate to the experience’s value, meaning, or significance.

Examples:

What was your key insight?
What was the most meaningful aspect of this activity?
What can you conclude from this experience?
What have you learned from this experience?
How does this relate to any theories, models and/or other concepts?

2. Reflective: Feelings & Reactions

Reflective questions relate to the affective domain - emotional responses, moods, and hunches.

Examples:

How did this experience affect you?
What was the high point?
What was the low point?
What was the collective mood of the group involved?
How did the group react?
What were your feelings during the experience?

4. Decision: Now What?

Decision questions relate to determining future resolutions and/or actions.

Examples:

How, if at all, has this experience changed your thinking?
What was the significance of this experience to your study/work/life?
What will you do differently as a result of the experience?
What would you say about the experience to people who were not there?
What would it take to help you apply what you learned?

Based on work by Christine Hogan - Practical facilitation : a toolkit of techniques

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