P - Positive Interdependence
1.) What are the mutual goals? Students will be invested in collaborating to create individual projects in math and science that will be used to build up a presentation and an art production. Groups will be assigned so that students that have selected the same combination of project topic and art/presentation format are placed together 2.) How will labor, materials, roles and resources be divided? Students will decide the division of labor during their work to meet the planning milestone. The planning milestone rubric (see support page) is designed to help to keep their efforts balanced. 3.) What roles and responsibilities will you assign? Teachers are responsible for designing the rubrics and projects, but students will assign all roles and responsibility within this framework. 4.) How are all the roles connected? Roles are connected by a common need to collaborate and support the project goals. Serious disconnects will be defused by teachers after the planning milestone. 5.) What joint/common rewards will you provide? The primary reward will be a job well done with multiple opportunities to receive positive feedback from peers and both teachers. A day of reflection at the completion of the project, planned to help coalesce our experiences and process lessons learned, may also be seen as a reward 6.) What are the consequences if not all participate? Grade consequences will be laid out in rubrics with clear requirements for collaboration and broad distribution of effort G - Group Processing - How will you guide meta-analysis of individual and group processing?
1.) Observation Students will be responsible for all aspects of their projects including planning, with requirements to coordinate across groups. Students will also be asked to rate their peers (written feedback) at multiple points throughout the project 2.) Reflection Students will keep journals and will have a day to reflect on their project journey and lessons learned after performing their service learning productions. 3.) Goal Setting During the planning milestone students will be graded on their ability to set goals for planning. Completion milestones will rate their efforts in meeting their goals. S - Specific Task
Four specific collaborative projects with rubrics (2 for science and 2 for math) will be assigned such that each student performs one math and one science project. Students collaborate to design, research, and execute associated art productions and presentations. Each group has specific objectives they must meet (e.g. present to peers outside the classrooms, connect what they have learned to teach outside students) |
I - Individual & Group Accountability
1.) How will roles be assigned? Students within each group will mutually agree upon roles. Students will have flexibility in re-designing roles as long as they support a coherent plan. 2.) How will you hold each student Individually Accountable for learning? Students can collaborate within their groups, but they will each have to complete an individual science and and individual math project. In each case they can choose from one of two projects, and further choose which will be their presentation and which their art project. 3.) How will you hold each student responsible for the whole group’s learning? The rubric will have elements that require group participation. Student roles will also require some aspect of big picture learning within their initial plans. S - Social Skills
1.) Trust Building Activity Students will participate in a planning activity to sketch out an initial vision and create a plan to collaborate to execute it 2.) Communication Activity Students will participate in a planning activity to sketch out an initial vision and create a plan to collaborate to execute it 3.) Decision Making Strategies Students will participate in a planning activity to sketch out an initial vision and create a plan to collaborate to execute it 4.) Conflict Resolution Teachers will step in to resolve significant conflicts, but students will be expected/coached to seek consensus and avoid conflict 5.) Leadership Skills - Identify How Leaders Are Assigned Groups will be responsible for allocating responsibility during the planning milestone work - How will Social Skills be Self-Assessed Students will be required to reflect upon their project journeys and list lessons learned. A graphic organizer with social, planning, content, and presentation/production ideas/starters will be provided to scaffold student reflection. Face - Face-to-Face Interaction 1.) Grouping Students select themselves into groups based on their choices as to science and math topic and by whether they choose art or presentation for science or math. Note that science groups are likely to be different than math groups, so that each student travels down an individual experience 2.) Room Arrangement Each classroom (Science and Math) will be divided into four corners to support the four project combinations. 3.) Group Seating Students will seat themselves by group once groups are selected (day 3). |