Cooperative Learning
What?
Pass-N-Praise
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Pass-N-Praise is a strategy where students are involved in peer-reviewing and reviewing
what they know at the same time. Students take turns answering a question, sharing
information, and praising each other for the shared information.
When?
How?
Why?
Pass-N-Praise allows students to review what they know in a peer-reviewed situation where
the risk is low, but the stakes are high.
Divide students into pairs/triads/quads.!
Explain to students that they are going to take turns to answer a question and
checking each other’s work.!
Have students use one piece of paper to sign their names at the top, forming a team.!
Present students with a question/prompt. (Such as, how does the Bill of Rights protect
your freedoms on a daily basis…)!
Have the first student write his/her answer on the piece of paper that the team signed
and then pass it to a partner.!
Have the partner that now has the paper praise the answer using sentence stems such
as:!
I liked your answer of ___________ because… (Partner agrees that the response
connects to the prompt and uses evidence)!
I liked your answer of ___________, but have you considered ___________
because… (Partner disagrees and provides an alternate answer using evidence)!
The reflector now becomes the answer giver and the process of reflection is handed of
to the next team member.!
Continue the process until all teams have done 2-3 complete rotations, depending on
the prompt.
Pass-N-Praise can be used anytime during the lesson cycle to include making predictions for
a hook to reviewing previously learned material to connecting it to what students are currently
examining.
Can Address Garner’s Multiple Intelligence:
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Adapted from the research of Kagan, S. and Kagan, M. (1998) and Garner, Howard (1993-2004)!
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