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Student teams Achievement Divisions: cooperative learning strategy that provides multi-ability teams with practice in learning concepts an skills
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Motivation

1. Planning for whole-group instruction (plan presenting content in the same way you would for any lesson !. "rgani#ing groups -mi$ed by ability, gender, ethnicity %. Planning for team study -high &uality materials to guide interactions -convergent answers' clearly wrong or right (. )alculating base scores and improvements -e&ual recognition -reward for higher score

1. *nstruction- skills is e$plained and modeled in a whole-group !. +ransition to teamsstudents, move from wholegroup to prepare for team study %. +eam study- student,s teams practice preforming academic skills (. -ecogni#ing achievementimprovement points and team awards are given

*f reflected on report card, it will appear in a section that includes statements such as .work well with others/ *f students are learning to take personal responsibility and function as productive members of a group -speaking -listening -sharing ideas -helping the group move in a positive direction

Students with different backgrounds work together 0roup members have e&ual status Students learning about each other as individuals +he teacher emphasi#ing the value of cooperation among all students

So what? What is important to understand about this?

Students will see their progress and be rewarded for it. Also, working with peers that are different from the will help them with real world concepts and involvement.