Silly sports and goofy games – Cooperative Learning for staff
|
More than 80 staff members attended the district's "Silly Sports and Goofy Games Cooperative Learning Workshop." The afternoon was full of fun and excitement. Many learned how to boost energy and develop teamwork to increase student achievement!
|
What is Cooperative Learning?
Cooperative Learning is a teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Students are responsible not only for learning what is taught, but also for helping teammates learn. This strategy creates an atmosphere of achievement.
Kagan Cooperative Learning, what is used in our District, is an integrated approach which uses structures as a part of every lesson so students are actively engaged much more of the time, multiplying the benefits of cooperative learning. About 400 District staff members (K-12 and Administrators) have had training in Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures.
Teachers tried to work together to keep a “Feather in the Wind.”
Staff work together to unscramble their footwear during the Shoe Scramble.
Faculty work together to keep the balloon in the air without letting each other go.
Crossover Dodgeball anyone?
Smile if you Love Me – The educators tried hard to make someone else smile.
