Achieving Student Outcomes Through Cooperative Learning

When

15 Aug 2016 - 16 Aug 2016
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Asia/Singapore

Where

Singapore
Singapore, (exact venue to be advised)

Event Tag

This workshop will introduce you to practical skills that will help your students increase their achievement while working in groups. The goal is to help you become proficient with the skills of group set-up, monitoring, and debriefing. You will learn to prevent typical classroom problems that occur during group work and effectively take care of problems which may occur. You will learn to manage collaborative processes so that students learn academics and interpersonal skills simultaneously.

Objectives
Upon successful completion of the workshop, the participants will be able to:

  • Understand the basic principles of the cooperative learning model.
  • Learn to structure groups so that productive interaction and cooperation take place.
  • Increase your understanding of the research which supports cooperative learning.
  • Learn to design lessons appropriate for your specific grade level/subject area.
  • Acquire enough skills, strategies, and ideas to implement cooperative learning techniques in your classroom.
  • Actively experience many of the concepts being presented.
  • Develop the confidence and motivation necessary to use cooperative learning effectively with your students.
  • Learn how and when to teach interpersonal skills that facilitate effective group work.
  • Learn when and how to enter groups that show problematic behavior.
  • Increase your ability to debrief group work to increase their effectiveness.
  • Learn techniques for building positive interdependence in groups so that students will have a desire to work together.
  • Learn how to motivate groups effectively with teacher-tested ideas for inspiring dysfunctional groups.

Outline
Day 1:

  • Overview of the two day course.
  • Definition of cooperative learning.
  • Definition of cooperative starters.
  • Cooperative starter decisions that need to be made.
  • Examples of cooperative starter processes.
  • Group configuration.
  • When to use cooperative starters.
  • Building in positive interdependence.
  • Designing your own cooperative starters.
  • Group sharing.
  • Explanation of the 3-D model.
  • Presentation of the schematic drawing.
  • Choices for building in positive interdependence.
  • Designing a subject matter objective.
  • Designing an interpersonal skill objective.

Day 2

  • Group monitoring techniques.
  • How and why to debrief.
  • Designing debriefing questions.
  • Creation of individual  3-D lessons
  • Retention check/review.
  • How and when to enter groups.
  • Interactionist or interventionist?
  • How to interact with groups using MOLE.
  • Move in, Observe, Listen, and Explore practice.
  • Cooperative learning beliefs and your frame of mind.
  • Designing how to “see” cooperative learning.
  • Back home implementation plan.

Trainer’s Profile
Chick M. is a veteran educator who has invested more than 50 years working with children, parents, teachers, and care-givers. More than 300,000 participants have attended his seminars. While writing and lecturing, he offers skill training to help parents and teachers create responsible, caring, confident young people. His seminars provide practical strategies that can be put to use immediately.  Chick’s motivational stories and humor help participants connect with the content and adapt it for their own use.

Chick is the founder and director of The Institute for Personal Power. A consulting firm designed to deliver high quality programs to parents and teachers. He is the author of Spirit Whisperers: Teachers Who Nourish a Child’s Spirit and Parent Talk: How to Talk to Your Children in Words That Build Self-Esteem and Encourage Responsibility and The Teacher Talk Advantage: Five Voices of Effective Teaching. His latest book The Abracadabra Effect: The 13 Verbally Transmitted Diseases and How to Cure Them is co-authored with Thomas Haller.

Methodology
This workshop will include lecture bursts, group work, individualized planning and reflecting, and discussion. Audio visual, experiential and paper and pencil activities will be included. Participants will be invited to think and adopt and adapt ideas presented to their own unique situations.

Target Audience
This workshop is designed for all teachers, administrators, counselors, coaches, and other adults who work in a school setting with students from kindergarten to high school (Ages 5-18).

Investment
SGD800.00/pax
SGD700.00/pax if register by 30 Apr 16

Other Details
Duration: 2 days, 12 hours
Closing Date: 1 Jun 2016



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