Effective CR Groups

Effectively using Accountable Talk Stems to Support Collaborative Reasoning

Goals:  

• Teachers will understand how the rules of collaborative reasoning groups promote student collaboration, thinking, and social emotional growth.
• Teachers will be able to plan for and effectively execute CR groups, regularly.
• Teachers will understand how to effective CR groups to improve student capacity to pose questions and hold discussions.

Agenda - 9:15-11:45

[10 min] Reviewing Collaborative Reasoning Rules and Reasons

• Collaborative Reasoning 
• Read Aloud in Sync
• Breach
• Use Accountable Talk

• Think [2 min]-Pair[3min]-Share[5min] - Reading Aloud
• When you facilitate collaborative reasoning groups, do you always have students read text aloud and in sync? Why or why not?
• Why do we ask anyone read aloud?  What do we as their teachers gain from it? What do they as students gain from it?
• What are some of the benefits of reading out loud? What are some of the drawbacks?
• What are some of the benefits/drawbacks of not reading in aloud together?

[20 min] Mock Collaborative Reasoning Group

• The Groups
• Ilyana (facilitator), Matthew & Mike (participants), Tiffany & Cherry (observers)
• Danielle (facilitator), Damon & Joanna (participants), Martine&Brodie (observers)
• Alison (facilitator), Phillan & Kerry (participants), Lauren & Marsha (observers)
• The Protocol [10min]
• Facilitators will run the group as a first-time student group
• Participants will adopt the role of students and play the part throughout the group
• Observers will take notes on the moves and comments of the group. 
• One person will track the facilitator moves
• One person will track the student moves
• The Debrief [10 min]
• How many different DOK levels were represented by "student" breaches?
• How did the facilitator prompt "students" to make higher level DOK breaches?
• How did the facilitator make sure the group spent time in productive struggle vs. unproductive struggle?
• What did the facilitator learn about the "students’" learning through this group?
• Whole Group Share [10 min]

[30 min] Planning and Preparation for a CR Group

• Plan for an upcoming CR Group in Pairs
• Danielle & Tiffany
• Mike & Cherry
• Martine & Brodie
• Alison & Matthew
• Phillan & Lauren
• Marsha, Joanna & Kerry
• Things to think about
• Text Selection
• Productive Struggle
• DOK Levels

[30 min] Practicing the CR Group.  Do a practice run of your CR group.

• Danielle & Tiffany and Mike & Cherry
• Martine & Brodie and Alison & Matthew
• Phillan & Lauren and Marsha, Joanna & Kerry