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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.
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Article
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: The Slow Student

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation of ways to assist students who need differentiated instruction. This article focuses on ways to assist student who struggle with keeping up with the pace in the classroom.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Motivating Students: Pick a Card, Any Card

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient grouping strategy. Teachers will learn to motivate students with the "Pick a Card, Any Card" strategy. It explains how to use it to select parts for reading a play in class.
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits of Working Together

For Teachers K - 1st
Article discusses how cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group.
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Handout
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Pedagogy in Action: Jigsaws

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides a comprehensive look at the jigsaw technique. This teaching technique is known to be one the most popular cooperative learning strategies.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a flexible grouping strategy. An explanation is provided that explains how to use tongue depressers to divide students into cooperative learning groups.
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Article
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Assigning Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning ideas. Students can be assessed via items suggested on this reference.
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Random Grouping Techniques

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a strategy for cooperative learning groups. Students will be divided by the following methods: students' similarities and differences, genres, and random means.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative learning strategies. Learning style assessments is a strategy suggested, along with several ways of randomly assigning students to groups.
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use with difficult students who do not participate appropriately in their cooperative learning groups including The Dominant Student, The Slow Student, The Bored Bright Student, and the Competitive Student.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Assessing Preferred Learning Styles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about learning styles. A link to many inventories for learning styles is provided. SL.9-10.1b Group Rules
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Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Games That Teach Sharing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover ways to share items with a group in a way that is fair to all. Discuss the importance of sharing.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A geometry lesson that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages students in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts introduced...
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Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Writing a Cooperative Class Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson plan, students will write a cooperative class story, using brainstorming and editing skills. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides information about the importance of cooperation. Students will learn strategies to help students work together as a team.