Full Description
"An excellent resource that provides tools to increase student engagement, critical thinking, and collaboration. Districts or teachers who utilize these strategies can experience increased student achievement!"
—Troy McCarley, Associate Superintendent for Campus Development
Pasadena Independent School District, TX
"A valuable resource for all educators that provides practical and easy-to-use templates and clear instructions, with research-based instructional strategies that support collaborative learning in student teams."
—Sue McAdamis, Director of Professional Development
Rockwood School District, Eureka, MO
Advance learning and raise achievement levels by unleashing the power of student teams!
Using the same principles introduced in the best-selling book Teacher Teams That Get Results, this resource shows how students who work together and share ideas with one another can deepen their understanding of essential concepts.
Combining effective grouping strategies with other research-based practices, this resource focuses on the power of student collaboration and dialogue in differentiated classrooms. Students can strengthen critical thinking and achievement through three key skills: teaming to learn, sharing knowledge and skills, and integrating and applying learning. The authors offer more than 100 reproducible planning tools to help learners:
Improve critical thinking
Scaffold critical layers of meaning
Generalize and infer
Integrate content
Identify patterns
Increase adaptive and analytical reasoning
By utilizing these innovative teaching tools and strategies with their student teams, teachers can prepare all students for deeper thinking and success—both in the classroom and on assessments!
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Introduction
2. Teaming to Learn
Introduction
Community Circle
Find Someone Who
Four Corner Cards
Random Partners
T-Chart, Y-Chart
Graffiti
Think-Pair-Share Say and Switch
3. Sharing Knowledge and Skills
Introduction
A-B-C Conversations
3-2-1
Jigsaw Methods
Concept Formation
Content Dialog
Note-Taking and Summarizing
Wallpaper Poster
4. Integrating and Applying Learning
Introduction
Four Squares for Creativity
Point of View
iREAP
Question Cubing
Cause and Effect
Right Angle
Synectics
5. Conclusion
References
Index
