Szkoła Podstawowa Nr112 im.Jana Pawła II Warsaw, Poland
Sharing Stories about Cooperation is a course aimed at children aged 9/10(form III) who have been learning English for two years. The aim of 30 meetings – 45 minutes each is to improve collaborative skills, students attitudes towards school, peers, and self, increase ability to appreciate and consider a variety of perspectives, increase students responsibility for their own learning and motivation to learn. The programme is based on 7 picture books (real books) about different aspects of cooperation and sharing.
Sharing Stories about Cooperation
Why Cooperative Learning?
More Positive
Relationship Among Students
Greater
Psychological Health
Greater Efforts To Achieve
The cooperative learning work has been organised in three groups of 20 children each. Two experimental groups have been carefully guided through co-operative learning programme and one controlled group has been tested to make comparisons.
Six teachers and two school psychologists have been involved in the process of planning, evaluating and gathering information.
How was cooperative learning/teaching organized?
Heterogeneous Grouping
Examination of the class structure and hierarchy and position of the individual students.
Examination of the educational capability, and achievement level.
Examination of the cognitive functions involved in learning a foreign language.
Building a Climate of Cooperation
Establishing Routines
Arranging the Classroomfor cooperative Learning
Team Mascots
Find Someone Who
Classroom Classified
Cooperative Games
Positive Interdependence
Jigsaw
Think-Pair-Share
Individual Accountability
Circle of Artists
Circle of Writers
Simultaneous Interaction and Equal Participation
Numbered Heads Together
Assessment
Self-Assessment
Peer Assessment
Group Assessment
Teacher Assessment
Evaluation of the Programme
Children – Testing attitudes
Teachers – Evaluation Questionnaire
Parents - Evaluation Questionnaire