Description: The Student Team Achievement Divisions model, or STAD for short, is a cooperative learning strategy that provides multi-ability teams with practice in learning concepts and skills. The STAD model has five stages, they are: 1) The teacher presents the class with information. 2) The students and the teacher will discuss what has been presented to them. 3) Then the teacher will quiz the students. 4) They students will receive their grades, and finally 5) the students who did well are rewarded.
Reflection on in-class presentation: We were presented the STAD model in-class as an elementary math lesson. The students were learning to add ones to a two-digit number to get to the next ten (19+1=20). The students were presented with the new topic for the day (adding ones to a two-digit number to get to the next ten), then the students and teachers discussed the topic and went over several examples as a group. After this the students were told to finish the worksheet they were given by either doing it themselves, asking their peers for help, or the teachers for help. Finally the students were brought together and asked similar questions they learned in the beginning. In a whole class group, the students were asked to silently vote on the correct answer presented to them and if correct, the students were rewarded by one of the teachers saying "good job" or "way to go".