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Kagan Cooperative Learning What is it? |
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Cooperative Learning is NOT
group work. Mrs. Harris DOES NOT take group grades. See the table below for the
differences between team work and group work… |
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PIES: Positive
Interdependence, Individual Accountability, Equal Participation,
& Simultaneous Interaction |
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Teamwork Components |
Group Work Components (not Kagan) |
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cooperative (with in the teams) |
competitive |
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individual grades |
group grades |
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teams are heterogeneous when possible |
gender split |
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individual accountability |
one does work for the other |
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teacher assigned teams |
teams assigned randomly, by students, or by
teacher |
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engage with each other every 10-15 minutes |
usually long-term |
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interaction w/in a structure of directions from
the teacher with each team member having the responsibility of doing
something |
group figures out how to interact; this creates
imbalance of the following types of students: a do-nothing, a-do-it-all, &
a-whatever-you-say |
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interdependence |
dependent or do-nothing or do-it-all |
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Mrs. Harris does do some competition activities but
those are not cooperative in nature. |
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