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GANAG Overview: Making Connections to High-Yield Strategies
- Assessment
- (Ch. 2) Identifying Similarities and Differences
- (Ch. 3) Summarizing and Note Taking
- (Ch. 4) Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
- (Ch. 5) Homework and Practice
- (Ch. 6) Nonlinguistic Representations
- (Ch. 7) Cooperative Learning
- (Ch. 8) Setting the Objective
- (Ch. 9) Generating and Testing Hypotheses
- (Ch. 10) Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
- Objective Score Sheets
- Providing Feedback
- Sample GANAG K-12 Lessons
- Technology Tutorials
Smart Notebook Ideas
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Inside - Outside Circles
Students form two circles, one inside of the other. Each person on the outside circle matches up with the person closest to them on the inside circle. The teacher gives a topic or a question for the pairs to discuss. After a certain amount of time, the circles rotate creating new pairs. The students can discuss the same topic for a few rotations and then the teacher can announce a new one. An extra dimension can be added by placing a dice on the page. Roll the dice to see how many spaces the circles move.
Adapted from Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures for Engagement 2010 Copyright. -
Cooperative Learning
This Smart Notebook file contains a variety of Cooperative Learning information and resources for teachers and students. It also discusses Webquests and the role they have in Cooperative Learning Groups.
Web Resources
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Putting the Pieces Together: Cooperative Learning
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Webquests
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.
Webquests.org
Education World
Teacher Web -
Blogs through SchoolFusion
Roundtables are a common structure in Cooperative Learning. Students can use blogs to generate an idea, build on someone else's idea, or collaborate on a project.
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Online Tools
Online Stop Watch - This site has a variety of different types of timers. There are timers that count up and down.
The Visual Ranking Tool makes the process of ranking items and comparing lists easy.
Office and Other Templates
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Two Truths and a Lie/Find-the-Fiction Template - Students write two truths and a lie. The partners/team determine which is the lie and which are true.
Brainstorming/Affinity DiagramGroups can use the Affinity Diagram when they are confronted with a variety facts or ideas that might seem unrelated, issues seem too large and complex to grasp, or group consensus is necessary. Students use sticky notes to record their ideas and then group them into like categories.
Web-based Programs
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Carousel Feedback through VoiceThread
VoiceThread provides a way for users to comment on media including images, documents, or videos. Teachers/students can upload projects and have other students or groups rotate through the projects providing feedback or in VoiceThread terms comments.
