Learn how you can use Strategic Instruction to ensure all students learn and are engaged in the learning. By thinking about the impact of your teaching, you will understand learning through the eyes of the student. The Region 13 specialists on the Strategic Instruction team create presentations and learning opportunities for teachers to plan strategic instruction designed to maximize their impact on learning.
Effective cooperative learning teams in a classroom are often hard to find. Nevertheless, students, now and in the future, will be expected to work together well in many life situations. Participants will learn how to structure their classroom for maximum student engagement and to structure classroom management for successful learning. Lessons are organized into three areas: personal responsibility, for respectful discourse, and for collaborative team problem solving. your the school year by structuring your instruction to include systems for successful teamwork with cooperative thinking and community building skills.
The workshop will include the following strategies:
With the community building strategy, Talking Together, students will learn how to treat each other with respect. As part of the instruction, young people learn to give each other a chance to talk. They learn to listen to what their classmates are saying and to support their expression of thoughts and information.
With the cooperative thinking strategies, students will learn how to interact in cooperative groups to solve problems and to resolve issues found in text and in real life by breaking the issue into its sides, gathering information to understand each side, and identifying possible compromises and consequences, and finally, reaching a group decision about the issue. A foundational strategy called SCORE teaches students five basic social skills for developing positive relationships and for working together as a team.