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Three Daily Elements of MAX TeachingFour Components of Successful Cooperative Learning:1. Individual Written WorkCommitment2. Small Group Work*Consensus3. Large Group DiscussionMediation/Arbitration4. A Real Problem to be Solved*heterogeneous groups_____________________________________________________________________________Skill Acquisition Model:1. Introduce and model a skill.2. Provide guided practice in use of the skill.3. Have students report on their use of the skill and how it helped them to learn the content._____________________________________________________________________________MAX Teaching FrameworkHelpingstudents strivefor successMotivation Acquisition EXtensionReducing Threat-freeanxiety over opportunity to Individual Higher orderpossible interact with practice in a thinkingfailure textlearning skillRepetition ofimportantconcepts andvocabulary• Writing to think andcommit to ideas• Cooperative discussiontoo Determiningpriorknowledgeo Building priorknowledge• Focus on a learningskill• Setting concretepurpose for reading• Silent purposefulreading• Writing to gatherinformation for furtherdiscussion• Individual practice inthe learning skill• Individualmanipulation ofconcepts andvocabulary• Cooperative discussionand/or debate tocollectively constructmeaning• Low-threat immediatefeedback• Individual and groupmanipulation ofvocabulary & concepts• Writing to reorganizeinformation• Analysis, synthesis,application, evaluationof reading material• Reflection on the useof the learning skill©2004 MAX Teaching with Reading & Writing, 6857 TR 215, Findlay, OH 45840, 404-441-7008 http://www.maxteaching.com31