Transcript TLE Seminar

TLE 2014 - 2015
Collaboration –
Session 2
CHALLENGE – EVALUATION – CREATIVITY – CLARITY – FOUNDATIONS – COLLABORATION
Aims
“Mastering our craft”
Cooperative Learning: individual accountability
• Collaborative activities so that all students are
interacting and have individual accountability
CHALLENGE – EVALUATION – CREATIVITY – CLARITY – FOUNDATIONS – COLLABORATION
The Power of Coloured Pens!!!
• What do you want to use group work for in
your subject?
• What do you want group work to achieve?
• Where does it go wrong in your lessons?
• Why are the coloured pens a useful tool in
ensuring individual accountability?
• Why is the point of giving students thinking
time before opening up the group discussion?
Feedback back from Twilight !
• Choose a scenario from the Problem Page that is a concern for
you and trial using some new some collaborative strategies.
(Use the reading material and the discussion points made
today to support this.)
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Where to go for help?
Us
Ask in department for ideas
Ask colleagues who are experience in collaborative learning for advice
Coaching?
Research
Bring your lesson plan/ resources/ activity to share.
Provide us with your evaluation of its success and limitations.
We will collate these.
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The role of the facilitator
• Ensures that everyone gets to speak.
• No-one dominates.
• Encourages clarification or further
elaboration.
• Doesn’t contribute ideas.
• Can record notes.
• Can act as a spy who feeds back on the
process of the group work.
Successful Group Work
• The importance of ground
rules/accountability.
• Clear objectives – structured timing of activity.
• Clearly define roles.
• The teaching of the skills of active listening,
structured talk, contribution and empathy.
• Planning to deconstruct process and product
and valuing the importance of both. (The
language of the teacher.)
CHALLENGE – EVALUATION – CREATIVITY – CLARITY – FOUNDATIONS – COLLABORATION
‘Think-pair-share’ and ‘Think-pairsquare’.
• In a pair discuss ideas on how to define
individual roles within a group. (2 minutes)
We often use ‘think-pair-share’ but students
don’t always think and don’t always share.
• Join another pair and discuss how you can
ensure that this happens.
Who is feeding back?
BRIGHT IDEAS
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Individual process targets on post it notes.
Red dot feedback cards.
Exit ticket.
Process rewards.
Roles – Communicator (feeds back) Clarifier (ensures that what the
group is doing is realistic/timekeeper) Charter (takes notes) Creator (Gives
ideas) Facilitator (the chair)
• Using a facilitator or spy.
• Jigsaw – student as the expert.
PIES
https://sites.google.com/a/pdst.ie/cooperativelearning/home
Post Twilight Activity
• The next half hour is planning time for your TLE work with your
TLE partner. This time should be used for co-planning. Please
make sure that in this time you also organise a date and time
for a peer observation (see below).
• Before the Summer Half Term Break, please ensure that you
have had the opportunity to observe your TLE partner and that
they have observed you
• This will contribute to your Appraisal at the end of the year
• Other points:
- the observation does not need to be for a full hour
- notes do not have to be taken as it is the post observation
conversation that is crucial
CHALLENGE – EVALUATION – CREATIVITY – CLARITY – FOUNDATIONS – COLLABORATION
TLE Sharing Event
• Meet colleagues from other areas – social aspect!
• Brilliant way of sharing ideas across subjects
• Two possible ways of getting involved:
- come along and informally chat to
colleagues about their TLE work
- share your own work informally by having
a ‘desk’
Diary Date:
THURSDAY 26 MARCH from 3.30pm – 4.15pm
CHALLENGE – EVALUATION – CREATIVITY – CLARITY – FOUNDATIONS – COLLABORATION