Teaching Team Study Test

3.7.1.3 Determining Initial Base Score

Base score represent students’ average scores on the past quizzes.

3.7.1.4 Team Building

Before starting any cooperative learning program, the writer started off with one or more team building exercises just to give team members a chance to do something funny and to get to know one another.

3.7.2 Schedule of Activity

STAD consists of a regular cycle of instructional activities, as follows:

3.7.2.1 Teaching

It means that the teacher presents the lesson. The presentation should cover: opening, development and guided-practice components of the total lesson, the team activities and quiz covering practice and assessment respectively. The steps of teaching are: 1 Opening 1 The teacher tells the students what they are about to learn and why it is important. 2 The teaching may have students work in their team to ‘discover’ concept. 3 Briefly review any prerequisite skills or information. 2 Development 1 Stick closely to the objectives that the teacher wants the students to learn. 2 Focus on meaning, not summarization. 3 Actively demonstrate concepts or skill, using visual aids, manipulative and many examples. 4 Frequently assess students’ writing by many questions. 5 Explain why an answer is correct or incorrect, unless this is obvious. 6 Move to the next concept as soon as students have grasped the main idea. 7 Maintain momentum by eliminating interruptions, asking many questions and moving rapidly through the lesson, 8 Guided practice 9 Have all the students work problem or example or prepare answer to the question. 10 Call on the students at random. This make all the students prepare themselves to answer. 11 Do not give long class assignment at the point. Have the students work one or two problems or examples or prepare one or two answers then give them feedback.

3.7.2.2 Team Study

1 Time : Half a class period 2 Main Idea : Students study in their teams 3 Material Needed : The work sheet and answer sheet for every team. During team study, team members’ tasks are expected to master the material the teacher presents in the lesson and to help their teammates master the material. Students have work sheets and answer sheets in their teams to practice the skill being taught and to assess themselves and their teammates. On the first day of team work in STAD the teacher should explain to students what it means to work in teams.

3.7.2.3 Test

1 Time : Half a class period 2 Main Idea : Students take a quiz 3 Material Needed : One copy of the quiz for each student During the quiz, do not allow the students to work together on quiz, at this point students must show what they have learned as individuals.

3.7.2.4 Team Recognition