Implement TPS and RoundTable with trained teachers across subject areas to target critical thinking skills¶

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Description¶

The article's procedure offers an implementable recipe: a teacher with over 10 years of experience received 20 hours of cooperative learning training, organized heterogeneous groups of four with rotating roles, and ran 21 activities using Think-Pair-Share and RoundTable with similar frequency across Language Arts, Environment Study and Mathematics. Activities were designed to promote the assessed skills through observation, reading, writing, discussion, and elaboration of Venn diagrams from images, texts and videos.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Teacher training in cooperative learning before implementation
• Heterogeneous groups with rotating role assignment
• Activities structured around the five cooperative elements

Constraints¶

• The control teacher had no cooperative learning training, so training co-occurred with the method in the experimental condition

Target Learners¶

• 4th grade primary students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Observation, interpretation, analysis (inferences), and argumentation

Affordances¶

• Cooperative Learning Five Basic Elements

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

• CTTBE: Critical Thinking Test for Basic Education: the 48-item critical thinking test used to measure the outcomes of this implementation

Key Sources¶

• Silva, H., Lopes, J., Dominguez, C., & Morais, E. (2022). Think-Pair-Share and Roundtable: Two Cooperative Learning Structures to Enhance Critical Thinking Skills of 4th Graders. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 15(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.26822/iejee.2022.274