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A Partnership in Learning
@ SWECHS
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Welcome to Cooperation by Design an online professional development designed for you the staff at PSJA Southwest Early College High School (SWECHS) in order to have you participate and practice Cooperative Learning (CL) with your colleagues before or while you set it up in your own classroom. All interactions will be facilitated through a mix of synchronous and asynchronous communication methods, including class discussion forums, email, sharing files on Office 365, web conferencing, and live training. Although you may be familiar with collaborative grouping as a Common Instructional Framework (CIF), this training takes a deeper focus on CL as social skills to improve student/school moral, attitudes and academic performance. To proceed in this website, continue to scroll down and read from top to bottom.
Welcome/Start Here
PD Description
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This training addresses the development of instruction for a Cooperative Learning environment. Participants will first attend an all day CL seminar with one of UTRGV's leading subject matter expert (SME), Dr. Bobbette Morgan and two of her doctoral students, Laura Hayward and Paul Perez-Jimenez. This online PD is designed as a six week followup during the participant's regularly scheduled Community Learning Center (CLC) 45 minute meetings. This online training is to be utilized for the selection and utilization of activities in developing, implementing, and evaluating CL instruction. Participants should explore the potential of suggested online media to enhance their CL strategies.
Overview
The Menu is subdivided into 3 major sections:
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Start Here. In this section you will find information about the online training such as the Overview or an organization of the whole training. The Objectives provide direction and serve to unify the training process. The Schedule provides a weekly breakdown of the training assignments and activities. It also provides, at a glance, the suggested due dates for all assignments. What Next? serves as the start of the training process.
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Modules. This section presents the course content as five modules (Modules 1-5) to coincide with the five elements of CL and one introductory module (Module 0). Each module includes an Overview, numbered Activities in this Module, and a Summary. Each module takes 45 minutes to complete. Note that Module 0 includes a Pre-quiz and Module 5 includes a Post-quiz; please refer to the Course Schedule for suggested due dates.
Module 0:
Module 1:
Module 2:
Individual and Group Accountability
Module 3:
Module 4:
Module 5:
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Resources/Tools. This section includes links to the class CL Discussion Forum, links to suggested resources, and documents or forms referenced in the modules. You will also find links to Email and other sources.
Objectives
Upon completion of this training the participants will be able to:
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Analyze their given curriculum or learning environment to identify a potential instructional opportunity that can be addressed through CL elements.
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Evaluate and revise instructional materials using CL strategies.
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Design and plan the critical elements of cooperative learning components including positive interdependence, individual accountability, and expected behaviors.
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Integrate lesson plans with CL goals and instructional activities during the current six week time-frame.
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Use a variety of media (text, audio, video, etc.) to develop instructional materials to improve cooperative learning outcomes and deploy at least one of them during the current six week time-frame.
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Work in CL teams to evaluate and use the CL theoretical background and CL elements to meet, plan, prepare, and present their activities during the current six week time-frame.
Schedule
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What Next?
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First, if participants have not taken the "Who We Are" survey, please do so by following the following link. The survey serves as a demographic description of the staff at SWECHS. The results may be seen in the adjacent link.
Second, participants are to register on this site in order to participate in the activities. Please use the PSJA school email.
Next, please continue to Module 0.
Then, continue through each Module.
