To move from old notions of group work or
cooperative learning into real teams, use a team collaboration and work ethic to help students identify the exact tasks associated with 21st century teamwork.
If teachers are interested in bringing
cooperative learning into their classrooms, Panitz recommends that they experiment with a few group activities before they make a total shift into the method.
Not exact matches
As the number of overuse injuries continues to rise in young baseball players, safe pitching guidelines — which focus on proper warm up exercises; maximum play time and pitch counts; recommended rest periods; appropriate ages for
learning various types of pitches; and not playing on multiple teams, year round or on consecutive days — are being integrated
into play at many of the nation's 200,000 youth baseball teams, ideally with a firm,
cooperative commitment from coaches, parents / caregivers and players.
Whether
learning how to teach thinking in the common core,
cooperative learning, hypothesizing or the more impactful models such as project - based
learning, it is essential that teachers experience and assess the deeper
learning process as they put their new skills
into practice.
When you consider the collaboration that we are desiring in professional
learning communities, we are in many ways forced to deal with the same conclusion: just putting teachers
into cooperative groups is unlikely to generate their deep collaborative skills.
As a graduate instructor in the 80's and 90's, I built
cooperative activities
into my teacher training work and trained teachers to use
cooperative learning strategies.
This flows
into the next section in which he discusses the most used SCL methodologies: active
learning,
cooperative learning, collaborative
learning, and constructivist
learning.
Take Action: Here is a video about a teacher who integrated SEL
into math instruction by creating a
cooperative learning environment.
SFAF's Common Core aligned middle and high school programs extend
cooperative learning and detailed, effective lessons
into the upper grades.
The approach trained teachers to build long - term small membership groups (tribes) for peer support and responsibility; to teach students essential democratic group skills; and to integrate academic concepts
into cooperative learning strategies.
Thirty - two
cooperative learning experiences and corresponding websites / links have been evaluated, shared, critiqued, appreciated, and arranged
into a «more effective» status, called «Round Two».
Materials on
cooperative learning have been translated
into dozens of languages.
In order to structure
cooperative learning effectively, teachers need to understand how tostructure positive interdependence, individual accountability, promotive interaction, appropriate use of social skills, and group processing
into learning situations.
Public presentation and reflection are integrated
into the educational process via internships and
cooperative learning assignments.