The Jigsaw Method: A Step-by-Step Classroom Guide
The jigsaw method is a cooperative learning strategy that sounds complicated on paper but clicks the moment you see it in action. In short, students split into “expert groups” to…
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Give One, Get One Cooperative Learning Strategy
The Give One, Get One strategy is a cooperative learning activity where students share an idea with a partner and collect a new idea in return. Students begin by writing…
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Inside Outside Circle: The Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategy
The Inside-Outside Circle strategy is a cooperative learning structure in which students form two circles and discuss questions or review concepts with a partner. One circle faces inward while the other…
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Cooperative Learning Strategies: How to Use Cooperative Learning During Direct Instruction
Cooperative learning strategies are simple routines that help students think, talk, and learn together during classroom lessons. Instead of listening quietly during instruction, students pause to discuss ideas, explain their…
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Numbered Heads Together Strategy: A Simple Cooperative Learning Routine That Gets Every Student Involved
The numbered heads together strategy is a cooperative learning routine that helps students discuss ideas, share their thinking, and work toward a shared answer as a team. Instead of responding…
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Cooperative Learning Activities for the First Day of School
Cooperative learning activities on the first day of school do something routines alone can’t: they give students an immediate reason to talk to each other. When students collaborate, listen, and…
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What is Turn and Talk and how to implement it in the classroom to Build Conversation and Connection
“Turn and Talk” is a powerful, quick-response discussion technique that gives students a chance to process their thoughts out loud, practice active listening, and connect with their peers. If you’re…
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Use Quiz, Quiz, Trade to Promote Collaboration and Develop Comprehension & Academic Language
Quiz, Quiz, Trade is a Kagan cooperative learning technique that fosters academic review and reinforcement and cultivates an atmosphere of collaboration. It’s a fun cooperative learning strategy that gets students…
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Think-Pair-Share: How to Use It in Your Classroom
Think-pair-share is one of the first cooperative learning strategies I teach every school year, and it is the one I come back to more than any other. The structure is…
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Fun Ways to Partner Students: 24 Creative Methods for Any Classroom
Partnering students in the classroom sounds simple until you’re standing in front of 24 kids at 8:30 in the morning, trying to figure out who goes with whom. The methods…
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Collaborative Learning – Teach Students to Work Together in Small Groups
Learning how to work together is SO important. Students need purposeful activities that engage them in team building and group work. Most of what the workplace requires these days is…
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How to Teach Cooperative Problem Solving (Grades 2-4)
Group work sounds great until you are standing in front of a class where one student does all the talking, two watch, and the fourth has quietly opted out entirely….
