Cooperative Teaching
By
Mr. Salvador
Major Aspects to consider
What approach will you use?
Choosing your material?
What are your objectives?
How will you arrange seats?
How will you divide groups?
How will you set up transitions?
How will you assess: individual and
group?
 Lesson plan set up?
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Approach
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STAD- four or five member heterogeneous
teams, worksheets or other study devices,
tutoring, quizzing, team discussions.
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Jigsaw- five or six member “” teams,
portion of materials, together learn topic,
individual quizzes.
Approach
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Group Instruction- Topic selection,
Cooperative planning, Implementation,
Analysis and synthesis, presentation of
final product, Evaluation.
Think-Pair-Share- Thinking, Pairing,
Sharing.
 Numbered Heads Together- Numbering,
Questioning, Heads Together, Answering.
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Choosing Material
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Have students had some previous contact with
content matter?
Is the content likely to entrust the students for which
the lesson is for?
If you use text does it provide sufficient info. on the
topic?
For Jigsaw, can content be easily broken up in to
subtopics?
For Jigsaw and STAD, can content be easily be but
into objective quizzes that can be scored quickly.
For GI, do you know the subject well enough to guide
your students to subtopics and relevant resources
and are there relevant resources available?
Objectives
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Identify what goals you want your
students to achieve.
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There needs to be group goals and
individual goals addressed.
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Objectives need to be appropriate for task
structures.
Seating
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Cluster Seating- Clusters of four or six,
students may need to move chairs for
presentation.
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Swing Seating Arrangement- Desks
arranged in L formations, Students at end
desks swing around during group
projects.
Groups
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Opposite genders need to be put into all
groups.
Students of different ethnicities and races
need to be grouped together.
Students of differing achievement levels
need to be grouped together.
You must know your classroom.
Numbering in certain situations can be
dangerous.
Transitions
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Write Key steps on whiteboard or on
charts.
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State directions clearly and ask two or
three students to paraphrase the
directions.
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Identify and clearly mark a location for
each learning team.
Assessment
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For STAD and Jigsaw- There needs to be
objective individual quizzes, base scoring
method is used.
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Other forms final projects are given to
grade: one for the group effort and one
for individual effort.
Lesson Plan
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Instructional Objectives- Example: Groups
will create a presentation of…
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Materials- Example: individual computers,
work packet, pen, and paper.
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Assignment of groups- Who /and/ or how
the are assigned.
Lesson Plan
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Task steps and procedures- What
approach and in detail.
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Monitoring and Processing- Steps you will
take to make sure all your students are
participating.
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Assessment- How will you assess student
work?