MANCEPFriday 18th February 2011

Marie O’Sullivan

Levenshulme High School

What will I discover in this session?

• Activities to promote co-operative learning

• Additional activities which I like to use in class

• Where to go for more inspiration

Co-operative Learning Structures www.kagan-uk.co.uk

“Cooperative learning improves:•Academic achievement among students, especially for low achieving students

•Race relations among students, including frequency of cross-race friendship choices

•Self-esteem among students, including intellectual/academic self-esteem, and peer self-esteem

•Class climate, including liking for class, content, and teachers

•Higher-level thinking, including questioning and synthesising diverse viewpoints and data”

Why Kagan?

In other words:• Ways of organising group work to ensure that students all have equal engagement and that they are supported by each other in their learning• Easily taught and readily adaptable activities • Develops students’ social, emotional and learning skills

Its as easy as…

Positive interaction-is my gain your gain?

Individual accountability- do I have to show what I’ve done?

Equal participation- is the interaction shared?

Simultaneous interaction- what percentage are on task at one time?

Setting up the room

High achiever

High-middle achiever

Lowachiever

Low-middle achiever

Today’s Taster Structures

• Rally Robin• Stand up-Hands up-Pair up• Quiz Quiz Trade• Numbered Heads Together• 3,2,1, Showdown!

Rally Robin

Stand up-Hands up-Pair up

Quiz Quiz Trade

Numbered Heads Together

Numbered Heads Together

• Name 5 actors who have played Doctor Who

• Which is the odd one out and why?

• Franco, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini

• Use all these words to create a grammatically correct sentence

• Jupiter, hatstand, monkey, George Bush

3,2,1 Showdown!

Random Name Generators

• The Hat• Fruit Machine• Mug of Misery (tasse de chagrin / Jammerbecher)

What’s the link?

Guess my …

A Question of …

Motion Paths

• PowerPoint starter activity• How do you do that?

Mark Purves www.souffler.co.uk

Speedy Animation in PowerPoint

• Year 8 activity

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