The Big Nine of Effective Group Work Notes (Google Slides + Handout)

Big Nine Notes: Key Expectations for Cooperative Group Work

Group Work! Amazing when it works, pure chaos when it doesn’t. The Big Nine: Key Expectations for Cooperative Group Work gives your students a starting point for heading into any and all collaborative assignments. Use it as an anchor for an interpersonal communications unit, or as an indepth expectation review for any content area.

The Big Nine Notes come with ready to use Google Slides. The introduction slide, standards, and instructions are all editable, but also contain samples if you need a starting point. The note sheet is a printable PDF that can be added to a

classroom notebook, or be used as a reference sheet throughout a group project!

Additionally, each of the expectations is paired with a “big question” to get your students talking! We aren’t big fans of stand-and-deliver notes here at Snarky Scholars. Have students answer independently, discuss in small groups, or work through the questions as a whole group throughout the notetaking process!