Sunday, January 12, 2014

Moving THINKING to HIGHER LEVELS!!!


In each of these photos you will see students working in cooperative learning groups. They are practicing how to politely agree and disagree.. as well as practicing how to come to a "consensus." Students in our class are also learning how to "justify" an answer. In the pictures that follow, the students are demonstrating how to complete the newly added "vocabulary" station. They are given a list of 8 words and they must decide on how best to order them (i.e. most happy to least happy- with words that include lucky.. merry.. content..ect). The students did an excellent job of working as a team. This work is increasing the vocabulary knowledge in each student's repertoire.