Are students collaborating effectively in your classroom or online? Ensure that all students are involved in group work or digital learning with these cooperative group roles. Within these 4 roles, responsibilities are divided so that each student can contribute to the group in a fair and meaningful way. Each role lists 3 distinct responsibilities, along with accountable talk stems specifically related to that role for additional support. Now available as digital images, you can post these roles to your school's digital platform or add them to assignment docs and slides! An intro activity and two exit slips are now accessible in Google Forms™ for distance or remote learning! To foster student choice, students can select their desired collaborative role for the day. You can choose how often students rotate roles to best fit your students' needs! Product includes: INTRO ACTIVITY: An overview of the 4 group roles and their distinct responsibilities. "Whose Responsibility Is It?" A matching activity to determine which role is responsible for the described task. 4 GROUP ROLES: With career-based titles to encourage learners *NEW* DIGITAL VERSIONS! Material Manager: Oversees supplies and students' use of support resources Discussion Driver: Moderates the discussion and volume Project Director: Presents the directions and group's completed ideas Time & Task Tracker: Oversees the group's use of time and remaining tasks STANDARD & MINI SIZES: Printing options of 4 or 8 cards to a page! 3 COLOR OPTIONS: Signature Rainbow, Color-block, or Grayscale (for color paper!) SELF-REFLECTION EXIT SLIP: For students to reflect on their contribution to the group Both in print and a digital version- Google Forms™! GROUP EVALUATION EXIT SLIP: For students to evaluate their effort and their peers' ability to fulfill their roles. Both in print and a digital version- Google Forms™! *NEW* GROUP ROLE DIGITAL IMAGES: JPG files of each group role and talking stems to post to your school's digital platform.
Use STEM engineering activities in elementary school as a fun, engaging, and meaningful way to tackle the Next Generation Science Standards.
This article guides educators through the essentials of cooperative learning, from understanding its key principles to designing activities, facilitating group dynamics, and assessing group work. It's crafted to help teachers effectively incorporate cooperative learning strategies in their classrooms, fostering teamwork, engagement, and collaborative skills among students.
This article guides educators through the essentials of cooperative learning, from understanding its key principles to designing activities, facilitating group dynamics, and assessing group work. It's crafted to help teachers effectively incorporate cooperative learning strategies in their classrooms, fostering teamwork, engagement, and collaborative skills among students.
This article guides educators through the essentials of cooperative learning, from understanding its key principles to designing activities, facilitating group dynamics, and assessing group work. It's crafted to help teachers effectively incorporate cooperative learning strategies in their classrooms, fostering teamwork, engagement, and collaborative skills among students.
One of the most important elements of teaching is providing students with plenty of opportunities to actively engage in learning with their peers. This blog post covers my favorite cooperative learning strategies that I have used in my classroom. These activities can be used across all subjects and several grade levels (3-6+). Bonus: I created […]
Cooperative learning can be a powerful learning strategy, but only if it works well. These small changes can make group work more effective in your classroom.
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Authentic Moroccan Berber Azilal rug Ecru with majorelle blue patterns Dimensions 2.38X1.48M 100% wool Handcrafted in Morocco Moroccan Berber carpets reflect the excellence of Moroccan craftsmanship, woven on traditional wooden looms in the mountainous regions of Morocco (High Atlas or Middle Atlas depending on the carpet typologies), by Berber women in their homes or grouped together in cooperatives in remote mountain villages. All Berber rugs are made from sheep's wool and woven into knots. It takes between 4 and 8 weeks to manufacture a Berber rug, it depends on the size and complexity of the patterns. Whether you prefer more traditional Beni Ouarain black and white diamond rugs or more colorful Azilal rugs, including high-end Berber M'rirt or Boujaad rugs, the existing palette of Berber rugs will surprise you with its diversity of patterns and of colors, reflection of the expressions of the Berber women who weave them. By choosing a Berber rug for your interior, you contribute to the perpetuation of ancestral traditional know-how. Over the years, Berber rugs have become classics of decoration, and whatever the pattern, they adapt to any interior style: industrial, Scandinavian, vintage, boho chic but above all in all the rooms of your House. They bring softness and style into your living room under your sofa and your coffee table, into your bedroom and those of the children Made from natural materials, they are durable objects, adopting a Berber rug means keeping it for years! Our shop 🎈Salam Salam🎈 Since 2018, Salam Salam has been offering you the best of Moroccan craftsmanship in a fun and colorful universe. Carpets, baskets, ceramics, they all reflect ancestral traditions that we wish to promote by offering ethnic and unique objects. OUR COMMITMENTS Unique objects: each object is unique and different, handcrafted by our partners Ethical objects: We are committed to offering different objects at the right price for our customers but also for our artisans. Sustainable objects: They reflect the ancestral know-how of the artisans with whom we collaborate OUR GUARANTEES Shipping in 24 to 48 hours from Paris Delivery by Colissimo Domicile Satisfied or refunded
Do you get stressed trying to squeeze in all the curriculum you need to cover? This is Deanna from A Primary Owl and believe me this is my daily struggle! I teach third grade and the amount of Social Studies and Science topics we have to cover is crazy....plus we take District Assessments over all these topics so nothing can be skipped or else my students will bomb the tests. One of my go-to strategies is one that has been around a long time, it's one of those oldies but goodies. So when I am crunched for time, I have my students JIGSAW the topics and let THEM be the experts. They love this part, I tell them they are going to be the teachers. Third graders just eat that up:) STEP ONE: Here is a great website that can give you the break down of all the steps but the first thing I decide is how I want to break apart the material being studied. Often for me, it is a chapter in a textbook. For example, right now we are studying the Habitats of Georgia so I divided the groups into the different regions. STEP TWO: Then decide how many students will need to be in each group. I let my students pick the group they want to be in but you can also assign groups. Then give the groups their guidelines on how they are going to study and present the material. This is where large chart paper comes in handy! I almost always have my groups make a chart. STEP THREE: After each group has time to study the material and decide how to "teach" it, it is time to do the presenting. The idea is that you take one expert from each group and form the JIGSAW groups, where each person presents their material to a small group. Sometimes, I have the groups present to the class as a whole (depending on the subject matter and how many groups I have). STEP FOUR: One important step, is to make sure you have a way for students to demonstrate what they learned from each group. You may want them to take notes as each person presents, or have a short formative assessment. FREEBIE: This strategy works so well and students love it. They enjoy learning from their peers and I love being able to cover topics in an efficient way. You can get a copy of my planning guide by clicking the picture: So don't forget about this awesome strategy the next time you're trying to squeeze it all in! Don't forget to keep checking back with us, we've got some great tips for fall coming up!
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This resource is designed identify students in Kagan or other cooperative learning groupings. Each set includes a tag for up to 5 students in a group. Each tag has the A or B designation as well as a peanut butter or jelly picture for younger students. I included two #5 tags depending on whether you...
Table Team Jobs are perfect for putting your students into teams of 4-6. This can help build a class community where everyone feels a part of the group and there is no arguing about who does what. Each team member at the table will have a job to do which will help make your classroom run smoother. It's easy to do. Find some pockets to tape on each student’s desk. Sometimes the Librarian at your school has some stashed away. Give each member on the team a job card. They put the job card in their pocket on the table and then they are in charge of that job for the week. I had the students change jobs weekly, but I had some teammates that changed them daily. I also had the students switch them in a clockwise fashion. This rotation was fair so everyone had a chance at a job and nobody could argue about what job they wanted next. The Jobs Include: Data Collector: • They collect all papers for the team and turn the papers in to the teacher or basket. • When passing papers out to students, give the Data Collector the papers to pass out to everyone on the team. This is a lot quicker for you, and they like it. Reporter: • If the team is working on a project together, the reporter does all the writing for the team. • If the team is working together and need to report to the class, the reporter does the “talking” for the team. Material Manager: • They collect any material the team needs to complete an assignment. • This can include but not limited to: crayons/markers, scissors, science material, textbooks, pencils, etc. Assistant: • They help the entire team. They make sure everyone is on task and contributing to the team. • They can help individual team members. • They make sure everyone has their name on their paper before the Data Collector collects the papers to turn in. Vacation: • This one’s on vacation. But if a student is absent, this team member steps up and takes their place. Thanks for stopping by today! See you soon,
This is a great way to assess your students' number sense/number line skills, as well as their ability to cooperate in a group. Perfect for middle school!
These Shiloh lesson plans include an fun and extra large group book shaped like a dog. Your students will love completing this book report project which is based on the book by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor!
Inferences are my favorite! There are so many fun ways to teach students how to infer during reading. It requires some higher order thinking skills, so it can be difficult for students to grasp. I have some ways and ideas to make teaching making inferences super fun and engaging! Making inferences is almost like being a reading detective who has to solve a case. The author might not directly state something in a text. The reader has to use the text evidence, along with their schema, to make an inference. Making inferences can also help a student draw a conclusion. Making Inferences Worksheets, Activities, and Crafts I like to kick off the unit with a Pixar short film. (You can find lots of these on YouTube.) I actually show one to kick off each day of the unit as an attention grabber. They are super quick, fun, and get the students thinking. They are inferring and don't even realize it yet. This is a great one to use, but there are tons more out there that would work. You will want to stop throughout the film to ask students inferential questions. As with every new concept, I always make an anchor chart for us to refer to all throughout the unit. I introduce inferences with this chart, and then I have the students talk about it. I then chant the parts of how to make an inference with a motion for each part and have the students echo me. We do this a lot! After about a week of doing that, they will know what an inference is for the rest of the year! It's crazy how it helps them remember! You can just randomly ask them during the year, and they can use the terminology and everything. They're amazing! Since first writing this blog post, I have updated my resources that I use. Here is a new anchor chart I have created that you can print as a poster, along with some posters that you can display during the unit. Another fun activity that I love to do to begin a lesson is the Mystery Bag. I put something in the bag and students have to infer what is in the bag based on the clues I give them. I try to make the object in the bag be something that goes along with the story we are reading. The character on the anchor chart from above is Miss Nelson from Miss Nelson is Missing. That is the first book I use as a read aloud for my students to practice making inferences. Make sure they have not read it before. If someone has heard it, tell them to keep what happens a secret! This book is perfect for making inferences. I use it first because there are always students who have read it before, so I like to use it for the whole group introduction. As I am reading the book, I am completing a graphic organizer, modeling how to properly make an inference and record my clues and schema. Students are filling one out with me on their clipboards at the carpet. You could even make an anchor chart you fill out by sharing the pen, but I like to use one of these to make them familiar with the format. We added the graphic organizer to this fun Miss Swamp craft. I can't help but love Miss Swamp. During my inference unit, I like to incorporate lots of different books and read alouds. These are some of my all time favorites. Chris Van Allsburg may be my favorite author. His books are so mysterious and amazing! So much inferring is required! The following day, I start releasing a little more independence. We, of course, repeat over and over what it means to make an inference using whole brain strategies. We do another story and craft, and then they participate in a cooperative group activity. If time is an issue for you, you could have them do this during small group instruction or even during centers. It would also be a great early finisher activity students could easily grab and work on. I create 3 or 4 case files like the one below and fill each with graphic organizers and a book or passage. Students read the book or passage inside and complete the graphic organizer together. The first time I do this unit, I like to use all picture books. When I do this unit again, I might vary it with other books and passages. The great thing about my inference pack is that you can use it over and over throughout the year. There are too many activities to fit in one week. I like to put a question in which they have to infer in the file. It gives them a purpose and keeps them focused. It's the "CASE" they have to solve! Below are a few different graphic organizers you can use with any read aloud for making inferences. Students wear these little name badges while working. They fit in a name badge holder or you could just paper clip them to their shirts. I also give them bookmarks to use for their independent reading books. I love to incorporate crafts into my instruction. Below are some other books that are great for making inferences. Piggie Pie and Corduroy are great for having students feel like they have to solve a mystery in the story. At the end of each lesson, I try to do some sort of exit ticket to check their understanding. I may read a short passage or story and ask them an inferring question about it. They write their inference on a slip of paper and clip it up. Last year, I had a board for exit tickets. Each student had a clip for their exit ticket. It was quick and simple. It's also really great for observations! I have actually done some of these activities for observations, and my administrators always really love it! I have gotten great scores because of the rigor, pacing, and variety of activities and assessments. I hope this helps you out and makes teaching inferences easier and more fun for you and your students! If you need any of these inference activities, click the pic below. It's been a busy but fun weekend. Fall has definitely been in the air! I went with some teacher friends to the Nashville GoNoodle meet-up. It was so fun! Mr. Catman was there, so that was really cool to sees the man behind the mask! Go Noodle has been a lifesaver in the classroom, so it was really fun to see the people behind such an amazing site. I also went to the Strawberry Patch Barn Sale in Hartsville, Tennessee with my mom, sister, and friend. So many fun booths and yummy food. It definitely made me excited for fall!
This is a great way to assess your students' number sense/number line skills, as well as their ability to cooperate in a group. Perfect for middle school!
Hey Y'all! This is Chandra from Teaching with Crayons and Curls! I hope that you've been enjoying our posts this month and have learned some magical new ideas to use in your classroom with our Teaching Pot of Gold: Making Learning Magical blog series! I don't know about you, but I truly believe that for my students to LEARN, they have to be ENGAGED! So, I'm here to share some magic about how I try my best to keep my students engaged! My husband is also an educator and many of our conversations are school related. He has been so fortunate to attend many more education conferences than I have, and has always been willing (and excited) to share the information he has learned with me! At one of the conferences that he attended, he was very lucky to learn all about Kagan Structures. I had never heard about Kagan Structures before, but now I am completely hooked! I have to figure out a way to be officially trained or find a way to attend a workshop! If you've never heard of Kagan Cooperative Learning, but you are looking for ways to engage your students and provide them with experiences for cooperative learning, I highly suggest looking into these structures! This book is absolutely incredible! One of my favorite structures is Show Down! My students absolutely LOVE this activity and it's a great way to review for a math test while also allowing them to work cooperatively- hello Speaking and Listening standards!!! You can read about the specific directions for how to complete this activity from the creator, Laura Candler, on her blog! I changed it up a little bit in my classroom for my firsties, but it's still very similar! My students always use dry erase boards for this particular strategy. I LOVE using dry erase boards in my classroom because they are fast and easy, and my kids love using them! Win, win! I have my students work in small groups of about 4 students and they sit in a small circle. We usually sit on the floor for this activity and I walk around the classroom to take observations on their work- great quick assessment tool! In the actual directions, there is a team captain that switches a task card over! However, I usually just display the problem students are solving on the Smartboard. The task cards are a great way for you to differentiate the problems each group is working on, but since I usually use this activity for a test review, we are all working on the same problem! Once the problem is up, students get to work independently. I have them try to keep their dry erase boards hidden from the other members of their group, so that they are working independently. Once I notice that most students are done working, I yell "SHOWDOWN" and students turn their boards around so that all the students in their group can see their work. This is when they work cooperatively to discuss how they solved their problems or completed the problem. They can celebrate successes or tutor each other on how to correctly solve the problem. This is NOT a game, nobody wins or gets point! It's truly about working together and teaching each other! My students get so excited everytime I tell them we are about to complete Showdown, which makes my teacher heart so very happy! I would LOVE to know what Kagan Structures you love using in your classroom! Make sure to comment below with your favorites! For even more ideas from The Primary Peach, be sure to follow us on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to catch all the latest news and updates!
Cooperative Learning through Problem Solving contains sets of cards that encourage students to work together to solve the given problem. All of the problems
Keeping Table Groups on Point {Using Table Points to Reward Small Groups} No comments Behavior Management, Classroom Management, table points, Teaching Ideas Table points are a great way to recognize students' efforts in a small group capacity. They are also a great way to motivate students to work together as a team. I love using table points to recognize students in small groups. I have individual, small group, and whole group reward systems in my classroom. I realize I am not the inventor of table points, and that there are lots of ways one can utilize table points in a classroom, but I do hope that you find this post helpful and/or informative. :) What are table points? Well, they are just that, points that are awarded to each of the table groups in my classroom. The purpose of awarding points is to collectively motivate the students at each table group to stay focused and on task at all times. Earning points The students can earn points for practically anything, but I most frequently award them for working at the appropriate voice level, transitioning quickly (slow transitions are my pet peeve), following directions, responding to attention getters, and/or packing up at the end of the day. The students know that they have to work cooperatively to ensure that these things are being done and when they see me standing by the table point display on the whiteboard, with a marker in hand, they quickly remind each other to "get with the program." Keeping track of points There is nothing fancy or complicated about how I track the table points. Take a look! Since the display is on the whiteboard, I simply assign tally mark points throughout the day. The kids can see where their table is at compared to other groups and most of the time, this motivates the groups to work a little harder and do what they are supposed to throughout the day. You can grab this free display HERE. Simply print, laminate, and attach to your whiteboard. I used magnetic tape, but good ol' Scotch tape would work too. Rewards Table point winners are declared at the end of each day AND at the end of each week. At the end of the day, the winning table group earns a sticker. It's a small token, but it's a big deal. They are always excited to see which sticker they get that day, and they seem to love any and all sticker designs. At the beginning of the year, I gave my students a sticker book. Confession, I got the sticker book idea from my genius colleague (and sweet friend). So, each student has a blank sticker book. Each time they earn a sticker, they add it to their book. Which they loooooooove doing. The sticker book is not fancy. It's simply made with photocopy paper and card stock. I laminated several sheets of card stock and then cut each one into fourths. I used the laminated card stock for the front and back covers of the sticker books. I filled each book with about 7 or 8 pieces of white photocopy paper (also cut into fourths so each page was the same size as the laminated covers). Finally, I placed a 2x4 inch address label to the front so that the students could label their books themselves. This is my example below, but the students wrote the same title on their sticker books. They also decorated the edge of the label. Oh, and they got to use markers. Another big deal. ;) Finally, I gave them a "free" sticker and they placed it on the cover. So, as mentioned, at the end of each day, the table group with the most points is awarded a sticker. I do this by having them place their hand on top of their head (another idea from my sweet friend and genius colleague). Then, I walk around and place a sticker on the hand that is on top of their head. This saves a lot of time (we don't have to wait for indecisive 7 year olds to weigh their options), and the kids like being surprised. Over time, their sticker books begin to look a little something like this. At the end of each week, we tally up all the table points from the week. The table with the most points is declared the winner, and the students at that table group gets to pick a classroom privilege coupon. The coupons below are from Libby Dryfuse. Click here to see them on TPT. Using stickers and privilege coupons as rewards are great because they are both easy to manage. The privileges don't cost me anything, and stickers are super cheap. I stock up in the Target Dollar Spot and Michaels craft store. Every once in a while, I splurge on fun sets from Lakeshore too. In my experience, table points work. Kids are competitive by nature and they want to please me and their classmates with whom they share a small space. Put more succinctly, they want their team to win and they usually do their part to help their table earn those points. How do you reward small groups in your classroom? DON'T FORGET IT, PIN IT! Share It:
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This cooperative learning rubric is used to assess students on their performance in group activities. ...
Learn the best parachute games for kids! If you want the best group games for kids, try these fun cooperative parachute games!
Use STEM engineering activities in elementary school as a fun, engaging, and meaningful way to tackle the Next Generation Science Standards.
This is a rubric used for students to evaluate themselves while working in cooperative learning groups. This can be edited.
Cooperative Learning in the classroom has many great benefits! This helpful resource includes strategy cards for Kagan Structures, group role cards, activities, and posters that will help you have a Cooperative Learning Classroom up and running smoothly in no time at all! Click the Preview button above to see everything included. Build a Classroom Community today by correctly using these cooperative learning strategies, tips, and structures. This helpful Cooperative Learning resource includes: Printable Cooperative Learning Strategies Guide Cooperative Learning Strategies Quick Cards Numbered Desk Tags Cooperative Group Role Posters Cooperative Group Role Cards 53 minute The Cooperative Learning Classroom Video Whether you are a beginning teacher or an experienced educator already using Cooperative Learning in your classroom, this resource is for you! The printable guide outlines 20 strategies, including some Kagan structures, that you can begin using right away. The Quick Cards are perfect for the busy classroom teacher! Just print on cardstock, laminate, and put on a ring for convenient reference. They are a huge time saver! The purchase of this professional development resource is for ONE teacher only. If you are planning on showing the video and using this resource for your faculty or staff, please purchase the necessary of additional licenses for each person attending and benefiting from the information. Thank you! Don't forget that leaving feedback earns you points toward FREE TPT purchases. I love that feedback! Also, FOLLOW ME and be notified when new products are uploaded. New products are always 50% off for the first 24 hours they are posted. It pays to follow me! As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thank you, Shelly Rees
Is your small group reteach time draining the life out of you? Are you feeling a little lackluster about it, then your students probably are too. Try one, or more, of these small group strategies to pump up your reteach, and reach students in a whole new way.
Do you need a great cooperative game? This one will sweep them away. I play Island Survival with year 4, 5, and 6s either at the beginning or end of the year and it is always a hit! They often ask …
My sweet friend Elizabeth is hosting a linky party all about my favorite social media....INSTAGRAM! You link up your 3 favorite instagram photos, but there are a couple of rules: 1. You can't link up a product. 2. Make sure to check out three others who linked up. If you would like to follow me on instagram, my username is @mrs_pauley. It was so hard to choose only 3 favorite photos, I wanted to break the rules and choose 5 ;) Without further ado, here are my 3 favorite photos: This photo was taken during our vacation in the Ozarks. I just love going there because it is so relaxing. This is pretty much what I did most days. Or I was on a float in the water doing the same thing....haha! My son LOVES playing soccer and I LOVE to watch him. (Yep....I am one of THOSE moms who yell from the sidelines...don't hate me!) I took this photo this fall during a soccer tournament he was playing in. My daughter is such a girly girl and I have a sneaking suspicion that she will want to be a cheerleader in high school. This is from the cheer clinic the high school cheerleaders put on. She had so much fun and looked absolutely adorable! I hope you will head on over to Elizabeth's blog and link up! I can't wait to see your instagram photos and don't forget to include your username so we can follow you on instagram as well! I am also going to link up with Simply Kinder for the Teaching Blog Round Up. I am excited to find some new blogs to follow through this linky as well! I have formed many wonderful friendships through blogging and I am so thankful for that.
Teachers always have lots of reasons to get that pain in the pit of our stomachs... Testing season, report card deadlines, group work....
I LOVE Four Corners! It is seriously one of the easiest strategies to boost engagement that I know of and it's a cinch to put together! Basically, all it requires is four signs for your classroom: Hang one in each corner. I leave these up all year so that I can use this strategy anytime the opportunity presents itself. What you do is present students with an idea. Recently, we were prepping to read a story about segregation, so I presented them with the statement: "Fair is not always equal." Then, have them travel to the corner that best represents their level of agreement with the statement... Cold = you totally disagree; Cool = somewhat disagree; Warm = somewhat agree; Hot = you totally agree. When they get to their corner, have them discuss their thinking with the others who moved there, too. Once students have had some time to talk to their group, have each group present their thinking to the class. **It's really fun, then, to have each group try to convince other classmates to change their thinking and move corners. The kids will become so persuasive and it's great prep for argument writing :) Ever used this strategy? How did it work for you? I'd love to hear about it!! Happy Teaching!! Check out all five of the posts in this series: Strategy #1 – The Graffiti Wall Strategy #2 – The Scavenger Hunt Strategy #3 – Read-Around Groups Strategy #5 – Collaboration Station
Sharing activity inspired by Should I Share My Ice Cream by Mo Willems! Perfect for homeschool, classrooms, or family fun. Includes a free printable!
Authentic Moroccan Berber rug Beni Ouarain Ecru with black graphic patterns Dimensions 2.33X1.58M 100% wool Handcrafted in Morocco Moroccan Berber carpets reflect the excellence of Moroccan craftsmanship, woven on traditional wooden looms in the mountainous regions of Morocco (High Atlas or Middle Atlas depending on the carpet typologies), by Berber women in their homes or grouped together in cooperatives in remote mountain villages. All Berber rugs are made from sheep's wool and woven into knots. It takes between 4 and 8 weeks to manufacture a Berber rug, it depends on the size and complexity of the patterns. Whether you prefer more traditional Beni Ouarain black and white diamond rugs or more colorful Azilal rugs, including high-end Berber M'rirt or Boujaad rugs, the existing palette of Berber rugs will surprise you with its diversity of patterns and of colors, reflection of the expressions of the Berber women who weave them. By choosing a Berber rug for your interior, you contribute to the perpetuation of ancestral traditional know-how. Over the years, Berber rugs have become classics of decoration, and whatever the pattern, they adapt to any interior style: industrial, Scandinavian, vintage, boho chic but above all in all the rooms of your House. They bring softness and style into your living room under your sofa and your coffee table, into your bedroom and those of the children Made from natural materials, they are durable objects, adopting a Berber rug means keeping it for years! Our store 🎈Salam Salam🎈 Since 2018, Salam Salam has been offering you the best of Moroccan craftsmanship in a fun and colorful universe. Carpets, baskets, ceramics, they all reflect ancestral traditions that we wish to promote by offering ethnic and unique objects. OUR ENGAGEMENTS Unique objects: each object is unique and different, handcrafted by our partners Ethical objects: We are committed to offering different objects at the right price for our customers but also for our craftsmen Durable objects: They reflect the ancestral know-how of the artisans with whom we collaborate OUR GUARANTEES Shipping in 24 to 48 hours from Paris Delivery by Colissimo Domicile Satisfied or refunded
This is a self-assessment rubric that can be used with elementary students to assess their level of cooperation in group activities. This is great to use with any cooperative learning activity or work station.
This cooperative learning strategy has been around for decades, but how well do you really know it?
This is a survey that I created to determine the comfort level of my students with self-directed learning vs. teacher-directed learning. This survey is useful when placing students in collaborative groups. Students who are comfortable taking educational risks tend to work well together - much more...
