Cooperative Leaning allows students with varied learning abilities to get a better understanding of the subject by working with their peers. One strategy that is used school-wide by all teachers at my school is Think-Pair-Share. My administration encourages all teachers to use this strategy to increase cooperative learning. I also partner my students when they have difficult projects and each student is assigned a role to ensure that all tasks are completed equally.
I often use WebQuests with my students when I want my students to learn more about a subject. I plan to begin using Collaborative Organizing because I really like the idea of shared calendars for students that need to work from home or different locations. I have a lot of students that are absent while their partners are at school and they are not able to collaborate and share information.
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Danielle,
ReplyDeleteDo all of your students have access to computers/internet outside of school? If not, would they just access they shared info when they got to use the computers at school? I know most of my students do not have internet access so implementing collaborative organizing wouldn't be feasible.