Video #1
Red Hat: Fire and warmth. When thinking about red hat, we should think about emotions, hunches, intuition, gut and feelings
Yellow Hat: Optimism, logical and positive thinking.
Black Hat: Stern judge, critic, analyst, logical and negative.
Green Hat: Vegetation and rich growth. We should think of creative, possibilities and ideas.
White Hat: White paper, facts, neutral, objective and information.
Blue Hat: Sky and overview. Associated with agenda, process, organizer and decision.
Video #2
This video talked about thinking hats. In the center of their circle their were stuffed animals that were all wearing different color hats. The teacher stated to the class that she was going to read a story that they should use their thinking puppies. She went over what the thinking puppies were called and she went over all of them. One of them is the boss which wears the blue hat. After going over all of the different puppies, they put the puppies into a basket and the teacher asked why they all go together and it is because they all work together! In the front of the classroom, they had hats displayed on the wall which represented their think caps. One of the students explained the meanings of each of the thinkings cap and it shows that the students within the classroom have a great understanding of the meanings of the thinking caps.
Video #3
The topic of this video was Kagan strategies. Kagan strategies are ways that students work together in a cooperative way. The students work together in groups and each child is assigned a job that requires responsibility when completing a task or an assignment. the teacher uses rally coach and it is when they work with the person next to them on one paper and the paper is kept in the middle of both of them. During rally coach, one of the students is doing the work while the other student is coaching them and checking their work. They continue this processing while going rotating back and forth. The teacher also uses stand up, hand up and pair up in her classroom. This strategy allows her students to stand up and move around and it is perfect for the students who cannot sit still! They complete the given activity and then they stand up and they high five another student and they complete repeating the process. Teachers can benefit from using the Kagan strategies because you know that every student within your classroom is doing their work. The students know that they have to complete their work because they are all responsible for their own work, resulting in them staying on track. A timer can be effective because it will make the students work efficiently. The Kagan strategies can be beneficial for students because they are getting their work done. It does not allow the students to fall off task due to the fact that there is a timer being used. It also gives the children the opportunity to work with their classmates!
Video # 4
Video # 3 discussed Think-Pair-Share. The video started off by the teaching reading to the classroom. She asked them to think about what people opinions of slavery might have been and then they were instructed to turn and talk to their partner. The teacher told the students that it was time to share what their partner had just said. I thought that this video was great because it educated me on Think- Pair- Share. When I become a teacher, I will most definitely use this strategy because it will give my students the opportunity to work with other students and they can get other insights from others which might be different than theirs.
Video #5
This video discussed numbered heads together. the teacher stated that they were going to figure out really important details that someone that didn't know about Rosina that they might not know about her from a reading that they did. The strategy required them to put their heads together. They were instructed to work with the people at their table and they were all given numbers. The teacher then set a timer for 5 minutes and when the timer went off, she called out a number and that student then stated the answer that their group agreed on. I think that this strategy is important because it allows the students to put their knowledge together and determine what was most important.
Video #6
Video # 6 talked about stand up, hand up, pair up. Amanda Hicks, a 6th grade math teacher was trained in Kagan cooperative learning and she believes that it is effective. It has resulted in her students to work together and it has made them more engaged. The students raise their hands into the air while standing up and they had to pair together with everyone in the class. Each student was in charge of their own problem and then the other students would have to do their problem. Amanda loved this strategy because it allowed her to determine who was struggling and she would then help them.
Video #7
The last video discussed Inside-Outside circle! The first step was, the students pair up into partners and the class forms into circles with partner A on the inside and partner B on the outside, facing one another. An amount of time is given and within that time, a question is given and partner A states his/her answer to partner B. After that, Partner B shares his/her answer with partner A. The third step is, the outside circle moves clockwise to the next partner A. Step 4 is, the students then rotate again to the next partner and both steps 2 and 3 are repeated.
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