Class Outline: April 5, 2005 (#12)
Topic: Teaching Strategies - Cooperative learning

4:20 - 4:50	professional development snapshots: Tanya, Carla, Tamara
4:50 - 5:35	interactive presentation: Cooperative learning
5:35 - 5:40	sponge activity: Story Drawing -- 5-6 students will form a small group. Group members sit in a circle. The group must create a drawing that tells a story.
5:40-6:15	small group activity: Each small group will practice a specific cooperative learning strategy, then teach that strategy to the whole class.
6:15 - 6:45	report back to whole group & discuss
6:45 - 6:50	minute paper

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Handouts
cooperative learning small group activities (MS Word file)

• The Saskatchewan Learning web site has a good, brief discussion of cooperative learning and peer tutoring for students with disabilities:  http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/k/pecs/se/docs/meeting/s5peer.html
• LD-online has a good article about using cooperative learning with students with disabilities to teach math: http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/math_skills/coopmath.html

ERIC document on the essentials of cooperative learning: http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed370881.html