The Social Family

1. Reciprocal Teaching

1.1. Students become the teacher

1.2. Students work in small groups

1.3. 4 Strategies are used: summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting.

1.4. Students take turns being the teacher.

1.5. Teachers role is to nurture and help the students to run their groups effectively.

2. Tribes

2.1. Teachers spend more time on creative activities.

2.2. Goal is to ensure healthy development and ensure students have the skills needed.

2.3. Safe trusting learning environment

2.4. teachers spend less time on discipline

3. Cognitive Apprenticeship

3.1. Teacher acts as a model for students.

3.2. Teacher demonstrates to the students how to do something, the student learns from the demonstration.

3.3. The student then shows the teacher what was learned and shows it via return demonstration.