Student Teams Achievement Division
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS MODEL: I like this model because it is meant to improve the communication between students because student collaboration is key in this model, or any model involving cooperative learning. Team rewards are used to promotes positive competition between classmates. Students are individually accountable for each section of their project, because of this not one students is dragged down by others lack of drive.
POSSIBLE DRAWBACKS OF USING THIS MODEL: While this model is important to understand because it is commonly used in combination with direct instruction, but STAD uses team study in place of independent practices it is a very lengthy model. One of the possible drawbacks of using this model in secondary education is that you would most likely run out of time in one class period and would have to branch the lesson over to the next class session.
HOW I CAN SEE MYSELF USING THIS MODEL: I can see myself using this model if I were to teach my students about United States, legislation and how it consists exclusively of Acts passed by the Congress of the United States and its predecessor, the Continental Congress, that were either signed into law by the President or passed by Congress after a presidential veto. I could assign each group an Act passed by congress and have them each explain a step the Act has to go through before it is passed. I would have to provide the study materials with clearly specified learning objectives so to ensure that the group instruction and team study are aligned. The study materials should require answers that are clearly correct/incorrect and not open to interpretation to minimize confusion.
OTHER COMMENTS/COMPARISONS: It is essential to monitor students in the Team Study phase and carefully gauge when to intervene as to make sure they are participating equally, this promotes social development and provides practice with the academic skill.STAD is designed to increase student motivation by giving students improvement points and team rewards for increases in their performances
Student Teams Achievement Division LessonPlan Example
Some of the strengths in this lesson plan is that the teacher does part of the lab with the students and explains the different procedures. The students within a group are then responsible for making sure everyone in the group understand the lab, the concepts, how to solve problems, and answer discussion questions.This will improve the communication between students because student collaboration is key in this model
One of the weaknesses is listed under the Jobs description where the teacher gives one of the students in the group "The Materials People", which means that their only job is to collect materials for the lab and return them to their proper place when the lab is finished. They are also responsible for manipulating the materials within the lab activity. This is saddeling one of the students in the group with more work than the others.
STAD is designed to increase student motivation by giving students improvement points and team rewards for increases in their performances.This lesson seems very challenging for students and requires a lot of cognitive processes to achieve the goal of 75 points.
Student Teams Achievement Division LessonPlan Example
One of the strengths in this lesson plan was that the teacher was sure to clarify the learning goals and motivate students.By facilitating students to remember the last lesson about counting rules, permutation, and combination.
Some of the weaknesses in this lesson plan is when the teacher only chooses some groups to present their group’s result in a class discussion and not all of them.Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) Model is about cooperative learning that can provide multi-ability teams with practice in learning concepts and skills and should be inclusive to all students.
The teacher deviates from the model by giving rewards to the best group based on the score group rather than individual students improvement points based on their personal preformance.When students match their past performance, they are given a small number of improvement points; when they exceed it, improvement points increase in proportion