Cooperative Learning: Integrating Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Robyn M. Gillies

Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Although cooperative learning is widely endorsed as a pedagogical practice that promotes learning and socialization among students, teachers still struggle with how to introduce it into their classrooms. This text highlights the strategies teachers can use to challenge student thinking and scaffold their learning as well as the strategies students can be taught to promote discourse, problem―solving, and learning during cooperative learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Cooperative Learning in Schools
2. Key Components in Establishing Successful Cooperative Groups
3. Teachers’ Discourse to Promote Student Thinking and Learning
4. Strategies to Promote Student Discourse
5. Group Composition
6. Assessing Small-Group Learning
7. Teachers’ Responsibilities in Establishing Cooperative Learning
8. Future Developments in Using Small Groups
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author

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