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Considerable Promotive (Face-to-Face) Interaction
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Classroom Must Be Set Up for Promotive Interaction
Assign Students to Groups & Arrange the Classroom
Steps for Setting Up the Classroom
- Promotive Interaction - individuals encouraging and facilitating each others effort to achieve, complete tasks, and produce in order to reach the groups goal
- Main ideas:
- help/influence each other
- exchange resources
- become efficient processors
- give feedback
- challenge each other
- build trust
1. Agree on rules for working in cooperative learning groups
2. Select a topic (based on subject)
3. Teach social skills
4. Assign students to groups
5. Arrange the classroom
Assigning Groups:
- Membership depends on students' abilities, interests, and experiences
Arrangement:
- "Knee to knee and eye to eye"
- small, close, working groups
Mrs. Equilateral is busy planning for her class' first group project day tomorrow. She is considering how she will implement all of the steps necessary to guarantee promitive interaction.
Mrs. E thinks long and hard about how her groups should be assigned. She makes sure to disperse personality types and learning abilities equally throughout the groups. The class then (carefully) moves their desks around the room, making sure that they are sitting "knee to knee and eye to eye" with their group members.
Let the group work begin!
Agreeing on Rules
- Discuss (in small groups) rules for working in groups
- As a class, develop the list of rules to ensure effective learning
- Display them at all times or make them easily accessible
- Repetitively reference the rules to make certain that all groups members contribute
Mrs. Equilateral prepares her class for their first group project by beginning a conversation with them about what they think their responsibilities should be in a group. The class spends several minutes debating before Mrs. E settles their arguments with a well thought out list agreed upon by teacher and students.
Select a Topic & Make Social Skills
Selecting a Topic:
- Start with something small and increase difficulty as lessons continue
Social Skills:
- Teach specific social skills that will maximize the group's success
Mrs. E decides on a topic of examining road maps to introduce the coordinate plane. However, next quarter they will be using the same road maps to study slope and equations of lines.
She spends some time introducing what social skill sshould be used to best help the group. For instance, she talks about how important teamwork skills are for group interaction.