‘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 Mc Carley, 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 Mc Adamis, 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!
Tabela de Conteúdo
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
i REAP
Question Cubing
Cause and Effect
Right Angle
Synectics
5. Conclusion
References
Index
Sobre o autor
Lin Kuzmich, of KCS, Inc., is an educational consultant, professor, and author from Loveland, CO. She served the Thompson School District in several roles as the assistant superintendent, executive director of secondary and elementary instruction, director of professional development, and a building principal. Her school was named a 2000 winner of the John R. Irwin Award for Academic Excellence and Improvement. In addition, for the past decade she has been involved in staff development through several universities and the Tointon Institute for Educational Change. Kuzmich is an adjunct professor at both Colorado State University and University of Northern Colorado. She is a senior consultant for the International Center for Leadership in Education, has provided training and consulting to school districts around the country, and has presented at numerous national conferences.
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