DEMO - Building a Collaborative Classroom (Updated 9/21)
  • What
  • Why
  • How
    • Opener: Duct Tape Trains
    • Opener: Emoji Stories
    • Inside the Fishbowl
    • Structures for Your Classroom
    • Visualizing Social Skills
    • Cooperation in Your Classroom
    • Closer

​Building a Collaborative Classroom

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Module Summary

This session engages learners in a cooperative-learning experience and demystifies the approach by breaking it down into its four elements and closely examining each. At the end of the session, you will outline a cooperative-learning experience to use in your classroom.
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Curriculum-Framing Questions

Essential Question
  • ​​What makes a community?
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Unit Question
  • How can students work effectively in groups?
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Content Questions
  • ​​What is cooperative learning?
  • How does cooperative learning differ from group work?
  • What are the elements of an effective cooperative activity?
  • How might cooperative activities be structured to ensure success?
  • What are strategies for team-building in a cooperative activity?
  • What are strategies for managing cooperative groups?
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