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Catrina Paseur
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February 19, 2014

STAD
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Student Teams Achievement Divisions is a cooperative learning strategy that provides multi-ability teams with practice in learning concepts and skills.
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Planning

Implementing

Assessment

Motivation

Planning for whole-group instruction Organizing groups Planning for team study Calculating base scores and improvement points

Instruction teacher gives instructions Transition to teams students talk it over Team study students do work together Recognizing Achievement

Tests understanding of content with regular tests that would be used for regular instruction. Group processes are also assessed and taken into account with assignment grade.

Assessment is based on improvement from previous attempts, so students are comparing themselves against themselves. Also receive team awards that motivate team effort

So what? What is important to understand about this?

STAD is a good strategy for getting students involved in the topic and working together to reach their goal. Requires a lot of work on teachers part for record-keeping for assessment purposes.