Cooperative

Learning

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

Cooperative Learning is very important in developing character in students. Here they learn to work with others, listen, gain perspective and appreciate what others can bring to a group. Teamwork is important rather than competition.

• Cooperative Learning Centre - University of Minnesota
• Cooperative Learning Techniques - short article and suggestions.
• CO Op site - Interesting information and links to other cooperative learning sites.
• North Carolina Cooperative Learning - A brief article on cooperative learning.
• Jigsaw Classroom - An interesting way to implement cooperative learning in the classroom including tips and implementation techniques.
• Cooperative Learning - Response to Diversity - Gives key ideas, implementation, interaction and information on professional development.
• Office of Educational Research - Article on cooperative learning.
• Active and Cooperative Learning - Many PDF documents on the topic and a another section where there are five other links to cooperative learning sites (Richard Felder).
• University of Tennessee - Great ideas and examples of how to organize groups and their roles, types of questions, and how students can record information.
• Cooperative Learning Network - Excellent sites given, technology information, online discussion information (Sheridan College).
• Cooperative Learning Elementary Activities - Ideas on how to use cooperative learning in the classroom and with a variety of curriculum.
• Eric Digest Articles - These are just a few but by going to the digest page you can search for more articles.
  • Cooperative Learning Strategies and Children.
  • Cooperative Learning in Social Studies Education: What Does the Research Say?
  • The Essential Elements of Cooperative Learning in the Classroom.
  • We Can Talk: Cooperative Learning in the Elementary ESL Classroom.
  • Enhancing Student Thinking through Collaborative Learning.
• Cooperative Learning in the Secondary School - A lengthy article with excellent information written by Daniel D. Holt; Barbara Chips; Diane Wallace.
• Cooperative learning ideas - lesson plans/ideas to use with students to promote cooperation.
• Classroom Compass - Cooperative learning - general information on cooperative learning.
• Article - What Is the Collaborative Classroom? From NCREL by M.B. Tinzmann, B.F. Jones, T.F. Fennimore, J. Bakker, C. Fine, and J. Pierce
  NCREL, Oak Brook, 1990.
• IN Context - Cooperative Learning: Two heads learn better than one
  by Roger T. and David W. Johnson.
  

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