Transcript Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning
PBL
Rationale
“Schools teach people to work as individuals, often at the
expense of other individuals. But in the work place people
need to be able to work in teams.”
• Academic Benefits
▫ Students produce more ideas
▫ Students participate more
▫ Students take greater risks in small groups
Elements to Consider
• Size of group
▫ Principle of “least group size”
• Group composition
▫ Heterogeneous
▫ Relationship between group performance and
intellectual factors is low.
▫ Relationship between group performance and
experiential & social background, interests,
attitudes, personality is high
Vacca & Vacca, p.66
Think – Pair – Share
How can you maximize the limited
time students may have on the
computer when completing PBL
activities?
Think – Pair – Share
How can you keep students on
track during PBL activities?
Think – Pair – Share
What are some strategies you can
use to teach co-operative learning
skills?
Think – Pair – Share
How do PBL activities help meet the
needs of diverse students (English
language learners, students with
disabilities, gifted and talented, etc)?
Project-Based Learning
• Why is teaching students to work in
collaborative groups important? And even more
basic…why do we even have to TEACH students
how to work in groups – isn’t this an innate
characteristic?
Project-Based Learning
• An exercise in Project-Based, cooperative
learning…
Mini-Teach Assignment