STAD: Student Teams Achievement Division

Grouping of Students:
•    4-5 team members of varying academic abilities, gender and race/ethnicity


Materials Needed:
•    Writing utensils
•    Paper (for notes)
•    Worksheets
•    Answer Sheets
•    Quizzes


Directions:

• Teacher presents material (this strategy works best with topics that have well-defined objectives and single right answers).

• Each student takes notes.

• Teams study material together, using worksheets and answer sheets.

• Team members take individual quizzes to demonstrate what they have learned.

• Individual quiz scores are added together to form a team score (scores reflect the degree of improvement over past quiz scores).

• Teams are rewarded for their performance.

• Each team member receives one of three recognition awards:

               o    Good Team: 15-19 improvement points
               o    Great Team: 20-24 improvement points
               o    Super Team: 25-30 improvement points



Citation:
Houghton Mifflin’s Project-Based Learning Space. (2010). Teaching Concepts: Cooperative Learning. Retrieved on July 20, 2011 from http://college.cengage.com/education/pbl/tc/coop.html#4