Cooperative Learning
What are the mutual goals?
English:
Social Studies:
English:
Labor will be divided amongst the students in each group. Materials will be provided to each group, resources will be collected by each group member.
Social Studies:
Students will be in the same groups as they are in their English class and labor & roles will be divided between them in the same fashion a stated in the english section. Necessary materials will be provided for each group, any additional materials must be provided by students.
What roles and responsibilities will be assigned?
English:
In each Lit Circle students will divide the following roles up among them.
Each research group of students will be divided into five roles and responsibilities
English:
- Work effectively in small group activities called Lit Circles.
- Learn about the lives of select Immigrant’s in America through reading, discussing and analyzing literary work by or about them in their small groups.
- Provide written evidence of learning and reflection of the learning and group effectiveness.
Social Studies:
- Work effectively in small groups analysing both data on Immigration and primary source documents of U.S. immigration history.
- Small groups will discuss and investigate the major issues surrounding current immigration in not only the U.S. but also international countries.
English:
Labor will be divided amongst the students in each group. Materials will be provided to each group, resources will be collected by each group member.
Social Studies:
Students will be in the same groups as they are in their English class and labor & roles will be divided between them in the same fashion a stated in the english section. Necessary materials will be provided for each group, any additional materials must be provided by students.
What roles and responsibilities will be assigned?
English:
In each Lit Circle students will divide the following roles up among them.
- Summarizer-Summarizes the reading and brings attention to the five key moments in the work.
- Literary Luminary- Chooses five quotes or passages that are either important to the work, interesting, strange, unique, poignant, etc..
- Vocabulary Enricher- Finds five unfamiliar words or word usages, defines them and explains their connection to the work.
- Illustrator- Draws a picture that represents something from the work. It could be a moment, a symbol, anything that represents something important in the work. Then they explain the picture’s significance in writing on the back.
- Discussion Director- Comes up with five discussion questions to get the group started. Leads discussion and completes discussion notes and group evaluation.
Each research group of students will be divided into five roles and responsibilities
- Facilitator- This student is in charge of keeping the rest of their group members on task. They must write a short two to three sentence summary of how their group performed after each class day.
- Questioner- This student must provide the group with 5 questions to consider during each of their inclass research times.
- Solution Finder: This student will keep a journal on all the major issues concerning immigration. Must do research and provide 5 solutions to current immigration issues.
- Data Keeper- This student will keep a journal of all the important statistical data that the team may discover in their analysis of primary sources. Must provided 5 important pieces of data which the group will use in their final project.
- Historian- This student is in charge of keeping a journal about any historical facts on immigration, and should use that knowledge to make connections. Must provided 5 important pieces of historical facts which the group will use in their final project.
Individual & Group Accountability
How will roles be assigned?English:
Roles are assigned by the students and are rotated with each discussion. Students can not repeat the same job until they come back around to that job in the rotation.
Social Studies:
Roles are assigned by the students in their groups. However, unlike their english groups these roles will be permanent throughout the immigration unit.
How will you hold each student Individually Accountable for learning?
The way we are scoring group work is based on a rubric which gives a certain amount of points for each role completed. Those points are pooled up and given back to students to divide the point pool up amongst themselves. Student who do not participate or pull their own weights in the group will be deducted points in their overall grade by their other group members.
How will you hold each student responsible for the whole group’s learning?
English:
Students contribute their work and opinions to the group discussion. Each person has something to contribute, share, and respond to.
Social Studies:
Each student is assigned a specific role which will make them responsible for providing a key part (i.e. historian, data, current issues) of their groups research projects.
Roles are assigned by the students and are rotated with each discussion. Students can not repeat the same job until they come back around to that job in the rotation.
Social Studies:
Roles are assigned by the students in their groups. However, unlike their english groups these roles will be permanent throughout the immigration unit.
How will you hold each student Individually Accountable for learning?
The way we are scoring group work is based on a rubric which gives a certain amount of points for each role completed. Those points are pooled up and given back to students to divide the point pool up amongst themselves. Student who do not participate or pull their own weights in the group will be deducted points in their overall grade by their other group members.
How will you hold each student responsible for the whole group’s learning?
English:
Students contribute their work and opinions to the group discussion. Each person has something to contribute, share, and respond to.
Social Studies:
Each student is assigned a specific role which will make them responsible for providing a key part (i.e. historian, data, current issues) of their groups research projects.