Rally Coach is a Kagan strategy that encourages cooperative learning where all students participate equally.

Partners take turns, one solving a problem while the other coaches. Then partners switch roles.

• Useful for any process or procedure with a definite right/wrong.
• Solve multi-step word problems in math.
• Change each decimal into a simplified fraction.

The basic principles of good cooperative learning are:

The learning task promotes teamwork and students
experience themselves as being on the same side;

Each student is held accountable for their individual contribution;

Students participate about equally; and

Many students are engaged at once.

These simple principles ensure students will cooperate, that each will make an independent contribution, and that all students participate about equally and participate a great deal. They are important because if we leave them out, our students can hide — they can take a free ride allowing others to do the work. In the traditional classroom, participation is voluntary. Many students, for whatever reasons, simply do not participate. When the principles are in place, all students become more actively engaged.

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This is the suggested option for students who need assessments to be read, specifically for benchmark tests.

Google Classroom is new - it's been available to the public for less than a month. So, there may be some trial and error!