High Yield Strategies - Collaborative Conversations

Collaborative Conversations is one of the five high-yield strategies teachers can use to build engagement with accountability, scaffold learning, and provide structure and routine for students to analyze information through collaboration. 0:00 Intro 0:20 Why Collaborative Conversations Matter 1:03 Beginning of in-class instruction 1:19 Conversation Mat for sharing 3:31 Conversation Mats for sharing out loud 5:00 Using Jigsaw with Conversation Mats 6:12 Communicating transition expectations 8:25 From Jigsaw to number groups 9:55 Conversations Mats for turning in assignments 10:35 Where can you begin using Conversation Mats 10:56 Conversation Mat templates 11:25 Outro Resources: 1. Teaching the Conversation Mats to students: https://rusd.info/ccmats 2. Conversation Mat Templates: https://rusd.info/cctemplates