Cooperative Learning JIGSAW!

Cooperative Learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. There is much more to cooperative learning than merely arranging students into groups, and it has been described as "structuring positive interdependence."

Our class participated in a JIGSAW yesterday. Last week we got put into base groups for each piece of cooperative learning. After we got put in our base groups we split into expert groups. I was in the group processing expert group. Our task was to make an interactive presentation that way we can teach our base groups the piece of cooperative learning that we became experts in. Once we finished we regrouped with our base groups and taught as experts. 

Reflection...
I really enjoyed each one of our presentations. Each one was unique and engaging in their own way. Cassandra's presentation was engaging from the start! We each chose a job to keep each other on track with positive interdependence and individual and group accountability. I was the project manager, meaning I had to keep the whole group on task. I loved the activity that Cassandra provided which made us work in groups and truly understand individual and group accountability.




Fieldwork.... YAY!!!!!!!!! 

I am so excited!!!! YAY!!!!

3 lessons 
GROUP 2 focus- Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 :)

Direct Instruction, Inquiry-Based, Cooperative Learning

Travel map- engaging have students take notes

KNL chart allows students to reflect on what they learned

Modeling happens in the head/ demonstration is physical.


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