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Introduction. Foundations : language learning through cooperative learning -- Structures -- Social roles -- Getting to know you -- Making words mine -- Guided grammar experiences -- Writing skills -- Lesson designs -- References & resources
Kagan Structures are revolutionary teaching strategies. Why? Because they create an unparalleled level of student engagement. Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates. Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride. Structures create equal participation which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time. In this must-have Kagan reference guide, you get 59 step-by-step Kagan Structures you'll use time and time again. More structures means more tools in you teaching toolbox to create more student engagement, more student learning, and more success! 240pp
Essays on cooperative learning focus on the use of this strategy to address the special needs of linguistically and culturally diverse student groups in elementary and secondary education. The volume contains several essays on theory, principles, and techniques of cooperative learning and a series of model instructional units for a variety of grade levels and subject areas. These include: "Cooperative Learning for Students from Diverse Language Backgrounds: An Introduction" (Daniel D. Holt); "The Structural Approach to Cooperative Learning" (Spencer Kagan); "Cooperative Learning and Second Language Acquisition" (Mary McGroarty); "Principles of Cooperative Learning for Language and Content Gains" (Spencer Kagan, Mary McGroarty); "Using Cooperative Learning at the Elementary Level" (Corine Madrid); "Using Cooperative Learning at the Secondary Level" (Barbara Chips); "Model Unit for K-1 Language Arts/Social Studies" (Carole Cooper, Angie Gilligan); "Model Unit for Grades 2-3 Language Arts" (Sue Heredia-Arriaga, Sue Gonzales); "Model Unit for Grade 4 Social Studies" (Sue Heredia-Arriaga, Mary Alvarez-Greeson); "Model Unit for Secondary Level Intermediate ESL" (Carole Cromwell, Linda Sasser); and "Model Unit for Grade 10 History-Social Science" (Daniel D. Holt, Diane Wallace). A "Coaching Instrument for Cooperative Learning," a checklist for implementing cooperative learning principles, is appended. (Contains 133 references.) (MSE)
Research has identified cooperative learning as one of the ten High Impact Practices that improve student learning. If you’ve been interested in cooperative learning, but wondered how it would work in your discipline, this book provides the necessary theory, and a wide range of concrete examples.Experienced users of cooperative learning demonstrate how they use it in settings as varied as a developmental mathematics course at a community college, and graduate courses in history and the sciences, and how it works in small and large classes, as well as in hybrid and online environments. The authors describe the application of cooperative learning in biology, economics, educational psychology, financial accounting, general chemistry, and literature at remedial, introductory, and graduate levels.The chapters showcase cooperative learning in action, at the same time introducing the reader to major principles such as individual accountability, positive interdependence, heterogeneous teams, group processing, and social or leadership skills.The authors build upon, and cross-reference, each others’ chapters, describing particular methods and activities in detail. They explain how and why they may differ about specific practices while exemplifying reflective approaches to teaching that never fail to address important assessment issues.
A review of the literature on learning strategies, describing and classifying learning strategies in second language learning.
The book is addressed to classroom teachers interested in beginning to use cooperative learning or increasing the quality of their current efforts.
