Cooperative Learning Structures are a key to engagement at Longfellow. These are ways that we get students involved, thinking about, and talking about their learning. We have several structures that we use to help students to be active participants and leaders in their learning. Fan-N-Pick is an example of a Cooperative Learning Structure. In this structure, each student has a role that is noted on a card that they put in the middle of the four of them. For example, one can be the fanner (they fan the cards out), one is the picker (they pick a card), next is the answerer, and finally there is a responder (their role is provide feedback to the answerer; either that they answered correctly, or to help them to make corrections). Students then turn the card so they each have a new role. This structure allows every student to have a role, and to change roles.
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