When To Use:
Numbered Heads structures may be used
to review or provide reinforcement to previously learned materials.
Steps:
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Students are arranged in teams of three or four,
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Each individual is assigned a number.
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Groups are assigned a learning task and given time to
accomplish it.
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Everyone is encouraged to learn the material because one
group member is later called on randomly to answer for the group.
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A question is posed, and
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The number of a student is then called.
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This student is responsible for the answer.
Variations of this strategy include the
collection of only one answer sheet when written assignments are completed
collectively.
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Johnson, David W. and Roger T. Johnson. Learning Together and Alone. Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning, Fourth Edition. Edina, Minn.: Interaction Company, 1994.
Kagan, Spencer. "The Structural Approach to Cooperative Learning," in Cooperative Learning: A Response to Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. Edited by Daniel D. Holt McHenry, Ill. and Washington, D.C.: Delta Systems and Center for Applied Linguistics.1993
Slavin, Robert E. "Research on Cooperative Learning: Consensus and Controversy," Educational Leadership, Vol. 47, No. 4, December, 1989/January, 1990(Publication of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.)
www.ute.edu/Teaching-Resource-Center/CoopLear.html
www.potsdam.edu/educ/GLC/ike/strategies.html
www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests