EDU 501 MOD 2 Research Wall by Lauren Osminski https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk Action Research Pins - Focus is on cooperative learning strategies that will enhance learning high school math en-us 2019-09-08 20:41:55 UTC 2019-09-23 00:07:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f4a1.png Potential Problem to Topic losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381395484 Students do not want to work with others]]> 2019-09-09 01:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381395484 Ethics losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381396468 Do I need consent if I trying new collaborative and cooperative learning strategies to engage students? I would do this in my class anyways.]]> 2019-09-09 01:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381396468 Article - Making Cooperative Learning Powerful losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381904000 This article describes five different strategies that teachers should implement when they are using cooperative learning.  

The 5 strategies include:
  1. Teacher formed teams
  2. Assign goals
  3. Individual Accountability
  4. Develop communication and listening skills
  5. Include cooperative learning as a part of the lesson, but not as the whole lesson

One thing that stood out to me in this article is how the author discussed the importance of making sure each student is accountable and is participating to obtain the goal and learn. I found the quotes below very important.

 “First, make sure the team goal requires the learning and participation of all team members. [...] Never choose an outcome one student could do alone. In addition, frequently reinforce the idea that the purpose of the team is to make sure that all members are learning, not just to get the right answers or complete the project” (Slavin, 2014).

"Finally, it's important that the teacher lets the work be challenging and doesn't step in too early to do the work for students who struggle. Doing so not only undermines teammates' developing interdependence, but also teaches students that if they feign helplessness, display apathy, or work slowly, the teacher will soon step in and complete the tasks. If kids instead learn to make appropriate levels of effort and to persist, they will build confidence in their ability to improve and learn. They'll realize that asking for help—not the answers—helps them learn. Letting students struggle constructively and safely in their teams enables each student to reflect on his or her thinking, compare it with others' ideas, and refine that thinking before sharing it with the class—or on a test" (Slavin, 2014).

Slavin, R.E. (2014, October).  Making cooperative learning powerful.  Instruction That Sticks. 72(2), 22-26.



]]> 2019-09-09 23:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381904000 Peer Tutoring Article losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381905688 I found this article and thought that it may be relevant to my research by using peer tutoring as a means to have students work collaboratively. ]]> 2019-09-10 00:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381905688 Article - How to Develop Participatory Listeners losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381906544 In this article, the author discusses how to teach students to engage in math conversation.  The author states "listening is an active process that students must consciously undertake for math conversations to be meaningful" (Sammons, 2018).  The author also states "using these strategies, you can make the most of math conversations in your classroom by teaching your students to not only express their mathematical ideas more clearly, but also become more effective listeners" (Sammons, 2018).  The author encourages teachers to teach students to be "participatory listeners" by teaching what it means to listen, modeling and practicing listening, setting up the classroom for listening to take place, and encourage to students to be good listeners all the time.

Sammons, Laney.  (2018, July 26).  How to develop participatory listeners in math class.  Talking in Math.  13(22).]]> 2019-09-10 00:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381906544 Article - Deepening Student Understanding with Collaborative Discourse losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381908256 The article discusses how we as educators should want our students to develop a deeper understanding through rigor.  The author of the article lists ways to observe deep understanding in students. 

The author also uses a Collaborative Inquiry Plan to guide groups in investigation and discourse in completing a complex task. "Before students can begin their investigation, they must develop a plan: clarify the task, determine how they will approach the task, identify resources needed, assign a role to each member specifically describing what each will contribute, and restate the success criteria" (Hess, 2019).

Hess (2019) tells teachers to do the following:
1.  Start with a challenging, worth-while task
2. Make sure everyone can have a job
3. Develop and share criteria for success.

Hess, Karin K.  (2019, April 4).  Deepening student understanding with collaborative discourse.  Collaborative classrooms.  14(22).]]> 2019-09-10 00:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/381908256 Article - Cooperative Learning Strategies losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/382594210 "Cooperative learning provides opportunities for productive struggle, in which students learn from their mistakes through explanations from their peers and teacher. The classroom environment must be such that students feel safe to make mistakes" (Joyce, 2016).

Joyce encourages teachers to set rules and norms before students work in groups.  He also highly suggests a participatory quiz.  I am still a little confused exactly how this works.

Strategies to try in class:
Red Light Green Light
Pair Shares
Hot Potato

Joyce, M. (2016, December 5). Cooperative learning strategies. National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics.
]]> 2019-09-11 09:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/382594210 Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/382594961 I found this article helpful because not only does it explain what cooperative learning should look like, but it also gives evidence and strategies to use.  One strategy that impressed me that was new to me was "Peer Instruction" through the use of clickers.
"In addition to providing feedback on group and individual performance (link to preparation section above), it is also useful to provide a structure for groups to reflect on what worked well in their group and what could be improved" (Brame and Biel, 2015).

"In team-based learning, two approaches promote positive interdependence and individual accountability. First, students take an individual readiness assessment test, and then immediately take the same test again as a group. Their grade is a composite of the two scores. Second, students complete a group project together, and receive a group score on the project. They also, however, distribute points among their group partners, allowing student assessment of members’ contributions to contribute to the final score".

Brame, C.J. and Biel, R. (2015). Setting up and facilitating group work:
Using cooperative learning groups effectively.




]]> 2019-09-11 09:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/382594961 Article losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384212250 "Teachers should design activities to promote math understanding by having students practice, experiment, manipulate, reason, and problem solve. Such math activities may help students make connections across math skills and concepts, and other disciplines"]]> 2019-09-15 01:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384212250 20 Collaborative Learning Tips losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384281209 This easy-to-read article gives 20 best practices for teachers using collaborative learning.  "Collaborative learning teams are said to attain higher level thinking and preserve information for longer times than students working individually" (TeachThought Staff, 2018). The following tips stood out to me:
~ Focus on problem solving and critical thinking
~ Include different learning scenarios
~ Use scaffolding until students are comfortable with expectations]]> 2019-09-15 12:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384281209 Article - The Effect of Cooperative Learning on Middle School Math losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384281678 2019-09-15 13:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384281678 Cooperative Learning Tips and Techniques losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384282248 6 Strategies to Use in the Classroom:
1.  Jig-Saw
2. Think-Pair-Share
3. Round Robin
4. Numbered Heads
5. Team-Pair-Solo***
6. Three-Step Review

Also, the article gives classroom management tips to use to help use the collaborative strategies smoothly.]]> 2019-09-15 13:04:33 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384282248 Cooperative Learning: Teaching Strategies losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384283520 Besides giving a break down of what collaborative learning is, I liked this article because it gives several ideas of how to assign jobs or roles for each student in a group. This article also provides a list of collaborative ideas to do within a class.]]> 2019-09-15 13:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384283520 Article (no date) losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384284153 2019-09-15 13:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/384284153 Collaborative Inquiry Plan losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385345877 2019-09-17 14:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385345877 Exploratory Talk in Math losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385367779 2019-09-17 15:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385367779 Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle School and High School losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385411411 I like this article because it gives a lot of questions that can be asked to students as they are working through problems. ]]> 2019-09-17 16:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385411411 Other Articles to Consider losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385496156 2019-09-17 18:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385496156 Kagan Cooperative Learning losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385500143 This book is full of reasons to use cooperative learning and ways to implement it in the classroom. 

"Students who work in teams feel better about themselves -- not only because their need for inclusion is met, but also because they are more successful academically" (p  4.1). 

"Cooperative learning structures are content-free, repeatable instruction sequences that organize the interaction of students to implement the basic principles of cooperative learning" (p. 5.3).

Chapter 12 - Basic Principles

Kagan, S. and Kagan, M. (2017).  Kagan Cooperative Learning. San Clemente, CA. Kagan Publishing]]> 2019-09-17 18:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385500143 Kagan Cooperative Roles losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385507492 2019-09-17 18:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385507492 losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385509193 2019-09-17 18:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385509193 Making Number Talks Matter losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385510274 Ch 3 - Guiding Principles for Enacting Number Talks in the Classroom.
"Students need to know that no matter the problem, people won't all see or solve it in the same way.  And we want them to learn that when they listen and build on one another's ideas, and look for relationships among our diverse ways of seeing, everyone learns more deeply and understands more clearly" (p. 31).
Humprhreys, C. and Parker, R.  (2015).  Making number talks matter. Portsmouth, NH. Stenhouse Publishers.]]> 2019-09-17 18:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385510274 PIES Principles losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385628822 2019-09-17 22:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385628822 Classroom Instruction that Works (p.35-47). losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385632083
~Positive interdependence and individual accountability are key elements in cooperative learning (p. 37). 
~ "Use cooperative learning consistently and systematically" (p. 39).
~ "Design cooperative learning tasks to include strategic use of other instructional strategies that help students deepen their understanding and use knowledge meaningfully" (p. 47). 

Dean, C.B., Hubbell, E.R., Pitler, H., and Stone, B.  (2012).  Classroom instruction that works: Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement 2nd edition.  Alexandria, VA.  ASCD.]]> 2019-09-17 22:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/385632083 effective math class losminsk https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/387650522 2019-09-21 22:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/losminsk/qjwx7lh1w3uk/wish/387650522