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Making Group Work Productive

PowerPoints available at www.fisherandfrey.com Click on “Resources”. Making Group Work Productive. The Keys to PGW. Students must be taught how to talk with one another. Teachers need to know how to move them. Know what you’re looking and listening for.

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Making Group Work Productive

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  1. PowerPoints available at www.fisherandfrey.com Click on “Resources” Making Group Work Productive

  2. The Keys to PGW Students must be taught how to talk with one another. Teachers need to know how to move them. Know what you’re looking and listening for. Make tasks engaging and interactive.

  3. TEACHER RESPONSIBILITY “I do it” Focus Lesson Guided Instruction “We do it” “You do it together” Collaborative “You do it alone” Independent STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY A Model for Success for All Students Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2008). Better learning through structured teaching: A framework for the gradual release of responsibility. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

  4. Purposes of Productive Group Work Students work together to solve problems, discover information, and complete projects Students use the “language of the lesson”

  5. It is not: • Ability grouping • For introducing new information or new skills

  6. Productive Group Work Structures

  7. Let’s make a Foldable Instructional Routines fold Oral Language Instructional Routines Writing Instructional Routines Reading Instructional Routines

  8. Reading Literature Circles Collaborative Strategic Reading Reciprocal Teaching Partner reading Jigsaw Sample Instructional Routines

  9. PGW in 8th Grade Writing

  10. Writing Progressive Writing Paired Writing Peer response GIST writing Collaborative poster Sample Instructional Routines

  11. Oral Language Think-Pair-Square Numbered Heads Together Socratic Seminar Walking Review Novel Ideas Only Sample Instructional Routines

  12. Treasure Hunt • Post questions around the room • Distribute one answer sheet per student • After returning to home base, groups submit a rationale for how they solved each sequence using conversational roundtable Free powerpoints at http://www.worldofteaching.com

  13. Mathematical Treasure-hunt: Sequences Mathematical Treasure-hunt: Sequences 15 47 Previous Answer Previous Answer ? ? To the next clue To the next clue The linear sequence below is generated by the term 4n + ?. What is the extra number ? 3, 6, 9, 12, … What is the next term in the linear sequence above? 6, 10, 14, 18, …

  14. Conversational Roundtable

  15. Sshh!!! Secrets to Successful PGW

  16. Let’s make a Foldable Secrets to Success fold Knowing How to Group Knowing How to Move Them Talking to Each Other

  17. To make group work productive… Students must learn how to talk to one another.

  18. Accountable Talk Describes high levels of engagement and critical thinking among learners • Accountability that discussions are on the topic • Accountability to use accurate information • Accountability to think deeply about what is being said

  19. Promoting Accountable Talk Press for clarification and explanation: Could you describe what you mean? Require justification of proposals and challenges: Where did you find that information? Recognize and challenge misconception: I don’t agree because ... Demand evidence for claims and arguments: Can you give me an example? Interpret and use each other’s statements: David suggested … Institute for Learning, University of Pittsburgh

  20. Learning to Talk in First Grade

  21. To make group work productive… Teachers must know how to group.

  22. Students are listed in descending order based on one or more aspect of learning (e.g., mathematical ability, language proficiency, concept knowledge) In a class of 40… Student #1 Student #21 Student # 2 Student #22 Student # 3 Student #23 Student #10 Student #30 Student #20 Student #40 Alternate-Rank Grouping

  23. To make group work productive… Know how to move them.

  24. Syllable Clapping Center

  25. Stations in Biology

  26. 1 2 Teacher-directed guided instruction 3 4 Rotation #1

  27. 1 2 Teacher-directed guided instruction 3 4 Rotation #2

  28. 1 2 Teacher-directed guided instruction 3 4 Rotation #3

  29. 1 2 Teacher-directed guided instruction 3 4 Rotation #4

  30. Table Talk How do you manage the traffic in your classroom? Are there students who have more difficulty with this?

  31. To make group work productive Make the task worthwhile.

  32. Purpose = Expectations

  33. Looking More Deeply at Task Design

  34. The established purpose focuses on student learning, rather than an activity, task, or assignment.

  35. “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau

  36. Non-examples

  37. The established purpose contains both content and languagecomponents.

  38. Students understand the relevance of the established purpose.

  39. Relevance requires… …making connections between the subject and its application outside of the classroom walls.

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