Handbook of Cooperative Learning Methods

Subjects:

• Education » Curriculum & Instruction

Reviews:

• ...provide[s] potential practitioners with a good overview of CL methods and their use and in doing so fills an important niche in the CL literature. I recommend the book to teachers and administrators who are seeking information on alternative approaches to classroom instruction.
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  Contemporary Psychology
• This long-awaited collection of the work of outstanding developers and practitioners in the field of CL presents eight generic methods of cooperative learning applicable to a wide variety of subject matter or use with an integrated interdisciplinary curriculum. Authors' approaches are international and diverse.
  —Cooperative Learning

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Methods
• Student Teams--Achievement Divisions by Robert E. Slavin
• Team Assisted Individualization and Cooperative Integrated Reading and Writing by Robert E. Slavin and Nancy Madden
• Pieces of the Puzzle: The Jigsaw Method by Judy Clarke
• Learning Together by David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson
• Structuring Academic Controversy by David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson
• Complex Instruction by Elizabeth G. Cohen, Rachel Lotan, Jennifer A. Whitcomb, Maria V. Balderrama, Ruth Cossey, Patricia E. Swanson
• Group Investigation in the Cooperative Classroom by Yael Sharan and Shlomo Sharan
• A Structural Approach: Six Keys to Cooperative Learning by Spencer Kagan and Miguel Kagan
• Applications
• CDP Cooperative Learning: Working Together to Construct Social, Ethical and Intellectual Understanding by Marilyn Watson, Daniel Solomon, Stefan Dasho, Peter Shwartz, and Sylvia Kendzior
• Creating "Thought-Full" Classrooms: Fostering Cognitive Literacy via Cooperative Learning and Integrated Strategy Instruction by Edward Ellis and Kevin Feldman
• Teaching and Learning Language Arts with Cooperative Learning by Aryeh Wohl and Esther Klein-Wohl
• An Integrated Group-Work Model for the Second Language Classroom by Yael Bejarano
• Cooperative Learning and Postmodern Approaches to Teaching Literature by Mark Brubacher and Ryder Payne
• Cooperative Learning and Science by Sharon Sherman
• Cooperative Learning to Support Thinking, Reasoning, and Communicating in Mathematics by Laurel Robertson, Neil Davidson, and Roberta Dees
• Cooperative Learning and Computers by Mary Male
• Implementation
• Creating a Community Context for Cooperative Learning by Liana Nan Graves
• Facilitating Teachers' Power through Collaboration: Implementing Cooperative Learning in Elementary Schools by Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz and Margarita Calderon
• Cooperative Learning and School Organization by Hana Shachar and Shlomo Sharan
• Cooperative Learning and the Teacher by Shlomo Sharan
• Index