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Cooperative Learning . IT WORKS!!!. What if I could sell you an approach that would . . . Increase Racial & Gender Tolerance & Friendship Increase Understanding of Children with Disabilities Increase Self-Esteem Increase Problem-Solving Abilities
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Cooperative Learning IT WORKS!!!
What if I could sell you an approach that would . . . • Increase Racial & Gender Tolerance & Friendship • Increase Understanding of Children with Disabilities • Increase Self-Esteem • Increase Problem-Solving Abilities • Increase Achievement: Comprehension, Recall, & Transfer, Reading, Spelling, & Language Expression http://www.successforall.net/resource/research/cooplearn.htm http://www.clcrc.com/pages/cl-methods.html http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed306003.html
What are the CRITICAL Features of CL? • Sound Grouping Strategies • Interdependent Group Goals • Interaction to Meet the Goal • Individual Accountability --Independent Check-out and Sound Grading
Grouping Students • What happens when students of any age pick their own groups?
5 Main Strategies & 3 Morehttp://www.coe.missouri.edu/~vlib/Joan's.stuff/Joan's.Page.html#SD • Student Teams/TAI (Slavin) http://www.successforall.net/curriculum/stlearn.htmhttp://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/instruct/cooplrn.html • Jigsaw (Aronson et al.) http://www.jigsaw.org/ • Learning Together (Johnson & Johnson) http://www.clcrc.com/
The Structural Approach (Kagan) http://www.cde.ca.gov/iasa/cooplrng2.html • Webquests http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
How Is Your Team Doing? • Achievement Data • Roles • Establish Goals for the Remainder of the Class
How do Group Work & CL Differ? Cooperative Learning Group Work