A series of tutor activities to promote a culture and ethos of cooperative learning.

1. Learning Ethos

2. Cooperative Values for the Teacher
1. Self-Help – what do each of us need to help us work out
things ourselves?
2. Self-Responsibility – what can each of us do to get the best
out of being at Tavy?
3. Democracy – How can we make sure that everyone’s voice is
heard in the classroom?
4. Equality – How can we help everyone join in with learning?
5. Equity – How can we make sure everyone is treated fairly?
6. Solidarity – What do we need to do to work together
successfully?

3. Cooperative Values for the Students:
Being Cooperative
1. Self-Help – Being able to work things out for ourselves.
2. Self-Responsibility – Being active ourselves, making sure we
learn what we need to do, not just leave it to others.
3. Democracy – Being open to different points of view.
4. Equality – Being supportive of all the different people in the
classroom.
5. Equity – Being fair to all the other learners.
6. Solidarity – Being part of the group, working together,
supporting each other’s learning.

4. Self-Help – Being able to work
things out for ourselves.

5. Make a list of all the ways you could
help yourself with each of these
problems
• You’re in maths class and you can’t figure out
how to solve a problem
• You’re doing your homework and you’re not
too sure how to answer the question
• You’ve gotten in a fight with your best friend
• Your parents have asked you to do something
and you really don’t want to do it.
• You forgot your school blazer

6. Why Do You Think….
• It is important to figure out a way to solve a
problem by yourself sometimes?
• How would it make you feel if there was
something there all the time to give you the
answers?
• When do you think it’s alright to ask for help?

7. Cooperative Values for the Students:
Being Cooperative
1. Self-Help – Being able to work things out for ourselves.
2. Self-Responsibility – Being active ourselves, making sure we
learn what we need to do, not just leave it to others.
3. Democracy – Being open to different points of view.
4. Equality – Being supportive of all the different people in the
classroom.
5. Equity – Being fair to all the other learners.
6. Solidarity – Being part of the group, working together,
supporting each other’s learning.

8. Co Operative Learning: Equity
• To be treated fairly
• The fair distribution of opportunities to
learn, to socialise, to be heard, to be
happy, to achieve…..

9. Everyone should be treated fairly…
• A group of pupils are playing
football; one pupil has been
excluded from this game
• How would your group ensure
the pupil was included?

10. PUZZLE: In groups of 4, each member
has a colour and a question.

11. Greens: How would we
prevent this from happening
again? Encouraging fairness?
Blues: What options does
the excluded pupil have?
Oranges: How would you
ensure the pupil was included?
Each member in the group ….
think about your question for a minute,
make some notes and then feedback to
your group.
As a group, write your response to the
scenario….remember we are looking at
Pinks: Why do you think this
pupil has been excluded in the
first place?
A group of pupils are playing football; one pupil has
been excluded from this game….
How would your group ensure this pupil was included?

12. Cooperative Values for the Students:
Being Cooperative
1. Self-Help – Being able to work things out for ourselves.
2. Self-Responsibility – Being active ourselves, making sure we
learn what we need to do, not just leave it to others.
3. Democracy – Being open to different points of view.
4. Equality – Being supportive of all the different people in the
classroom.
5. Equity – Being fair to all the other learners.
6. Solidarity – Being part of the group, working together,
supporting each other’s learning.

14. What does self responsibility mean to
you?
How many different
ideas can you think
of in 2 minutes?

15. Share your ideas with a partner
Choose the most important characteristics that somebody with
excellent self responsibility would have.
Share your best ideas with the class.
Why are these ideas so important?

16. SR
Self
responsibility
man
Label all the characteristics that self responsibility man would have.

17. Target to improve on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Bring a pen to every
lesson.
3 4 4 5 5
Give more answers
during discussion work.
2 3 3 4 4
Listen more and talk
less
3 3 4 4 4
Choose 3 target areas that you could improve on to help
your learning at Tavistock College.
At the end of each day score yourself out of 5.
Your challenge is to improve each target by the end of the
week.
Keep this table in your planner

18. After 1 week we will
reflect on our progress;
- What went well.
- What still needs
improving .
- How we can improve any
targets or set new
targets to develop.

19. Target to improve on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
At the end of each day score yourself out of 5.

20. Target to improve on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
At the end of each day score yourself out of 5.

21. Cooperative Values for the Students:
Being Cooperative
1. Self-Help – Being able to work things out for ourselves.
2. Self-Responsibility – Being active ourselves, making sure we
learn what we need to do, not just leave it to others.
3. Democracy – Being open to different points of view.
4. Equality – Being supportive of all the different people in the
classroom.
5. Equity – Being fair to all the other learners.
6. Solidarity – Being part of the group, working together,
supporting each other’s learning.

22. SOLIDARITY

23. Instructions
• Pupils to be grouped in fours and numbered individually (1-4)
• Teacher has stimulus ready to present to pupils in turn.
• Teacher selects which number will be called to the stimulus first – e.g. all number
3’s.
• Pupils stand away from the class and see the stimulus for 45 seconds.
• They then return to their groups and recall what they saw. They/somebody in the
group will have to record this on an A3 sheet. Allow 60 seconds for this.
• Repeat procedure until all 4 pupils have experienced the cycle.
• It is important that pupils DO NOT draw/annotate their work between recall
sessions.
• Once complete – project stimulus onto overhead projector – ask for a
representative from each group to bring their sheet to the front and discuss
methods they used, how accurate their sheets are in comparison to the stimulus
etc.
• Teachers info: the theme/cooperative values in focus here is SOLIDARITY –
working with others and supporting others in groups.

24. Reflection
• Questions to consider?
• 1) What was the point of that task?
• 2) Can you identify the theme linking the images?
• 3) Identify strategies your group adopted to carry
out the task.
• 4) Which strategies were successful?
• 5) Which strategies might you try/revise if you
were able to complete the task again?

25. Cooperative Values for the Students:
Being Cooperative
1. Self-Help – Being able to work things out for ourselves.
2. Self-Responsibility – Being active ourselves, making sure we
learn what we need to do, not just leave it to others.
3. Democracy – Being open to different points of view.
4. Equality – Being supportive of all the different people in the
classroom.
5. Equity – Being fair to all the other learners.
6. Solidarity – Being part of the group, working together,
supporting each other’s learning.

26. Democracy
And what it isn’t...We know what it is...
but what does it actually mean to us....?

27. Democracy comes from the Greek
words... Dêmos meaning people and
kratos meaning rule or power.
So in a democracy, the people rule. In
Britain we rule indirectly. We vote for
people who then make decisions. The
rule of the majority create the decisions
of the majority.
Democracy is the
government of the
people, by the people,
for the people
I disapprove of what you say, but
I will defend to the death your
right to say it

28. Democracy deals with: Liberty, Equality, Dignity.
Liberty Equality Dignity

29. •Democracy cannot succeed unless those
who express their choice are prepared to
choose wisely. The real safeguard of
democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin Roosevelt

30. Cooperative Values for the Students:
Being Cooperative
1. Self-Help – Being able to work things out for ourselves.
2. Self-Responsibility – Being active ourselves, making sure we
learn what we need to do, not just leave it to others.
3. Democracy – Being open to different points of view.
4. Equality – Being supportive of all the different people in the
classroom.
5. Equity – Being fair to all the other learners.
6. Solidarity – Being part of the group, working together,
supporting each other’s learning.

31. EQUALITY
Tutor activity:
This can be used in any tutor group.
Step by step guide:
1) The students think of a question
and an answer (can be about the
daily news or about what they
learnt the day before)
2) The student has this question and
answer and finds a partner and asks
them the question.
3) The partner then asks the original
partner theirs and you swap
questions.
4) The student then walks around
with the other question and ask
another partner and after they
have asked each other their
questions they swap.