Tutorial 3: Managing a Differentiated Classroom

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1 Essential Questions
1.1 What makes a group, a "cooperative learning group"?
1.1.1 A group that works together to accomplish shared goals
1.1.2 A group that "swims" together, rather than against one other
1.1.3 A group where students work together to maximise their own and one another’s learning.


1.2 How does one implement CL in the classroom?
1.2.1 By first teaching social skills necessary to facilitate cooperation

1.2.1.1 Forming skills

• 1.2.1.1.1 Move without noise
  1.2.1.1.2 Stay with the group
  1.2.1.1.3 Use quiet voices
  1.2.1.1.4 Take turns
  1.2.1.1.5 Use names
  1.2.1.1.6 Look at speaker

1.2.1.2 Functioning skills

• 1.2.1.2.1 Share ideas & opinions
  1.2.1.2.2 Asking for facts & reasoning
  1.2.1.2.3 Encourage others' participation
  1.2.1.2.4 Paraphrse others' statements
  1.2.1.2.5 Offer to explain/clarify

1.2.1.3 Formulating skills

• 1.2.1.3.1 Summarize
  1.2.1.3.2 Seek elaboration
  1.2.1.3.3 Check others' understanding
  1.2.1.3.4 Ask others to plan out loud
  1.2.1.3.5 Suggest wars of remembering

1.2.1.4 Fermenting skills

• 1.2.1.4.1 Criticize ideas, not people!
  1.2.1.4.2 Integrate ideas into single position
  1.2.1.4.3 Ask for justification
  1.2.1.4.4 Extend others' answers
  1.2.1.4.5 Probe by asking questions
  1.2.1.4.6 Generate additional answers

1.2.2 Teaching social skills

• 1.2.2.1 Help see need
  1.2.2.2 Define skill
  1.2.2.3 Set up practice
  1.2.2.4 Allow time for processing
  1.2.2.5 Encourage practice
  

1.3 Why is cooperative learning necessary in a DI classroom?
1.3.1 It facilitates students working together to accomplish shared goals
1.3.2 It allows students to work in small groups so that they can work together to maximise their own and one other’s learning