COOPERATIVE ADVENTURES POSTERS

 

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How can we use our collection of Cooperative Adventures posters?

Clients have told me that these posters are some of the most valuable pieces of a Cooperative Adventures classroom program.  Many of the following ideas and strategies are from teachers who are using the posters to supplement and extend their Cooperative Adventures program.

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Hang posters in prominent places throughout your classroom.  Moving them from place to place from time to time is also a good idea.
 

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Refer to the posters often with regard to ongoing classroom issues as they come up.
 

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Find a moment, each day, to point to a poster and inquire of your class -- "Where have you seen evidence of this poster today?"
 

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Before your class goes out to recess, ask them to "be on the lookout for evidence" of a particular poster.  Don't forget to follow-up on this when they return from recess.
 

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Use thumbnail images of posters in your classroom newsletters to parents.
 

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When there is a conflict between class members, ask the participants to list the poster(s) that apply before sitting down to resolve the conflict.  Just this simple step can go a long ways toward resolving the conflict.  Encourage your principal to use this strategy as well in his/her dealings with students.  Have your principal contact me for a set of mini posters for their use if I haven't given them a set already.
 

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Use posters as writing topics.
 

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Use posters as topics for partner/small group oral presentations.  After practice, followed by feedback from the class, and more practice -- video tape the presentations.  Share these presentations with other classes.  Develop an open house presentation.

If you can think of other ways these posters can be used, please be sure to share them with Dave so that he can share them with others.

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