Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty
This practical, how-to book on co-operative learning is designed to serve as a resource for faculty members at colleges and universities. It offers an overview of the co-operative learning process, including its rationale, its research base, its value, and its practical implementation. The authors also describe a variety of approaches to co-operative learning drawn from complementary movements such as classroom research, writing across-the-curriculum, computer technology and critical thinking. They begin with a basic structure for implementing a co-operative learning programme, then move progressively through more complex activities. Numerous examples of actual co-operative learning programmes are included which span a wide variety of disciplines. These examples underscore how a successful programme can bolster student achievement, increase self-esteem, and foster the spirit of teamwork. This book should appeal to those new to the cooperative learning process, as well as to established practitioners in the field.
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Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty
This practical, how-to book on co-operative learning is designed to serve as a resource for faculty members at colleges and universities. It offers an overview of the co-operative learning process, including its rationale, its research base, its value, and its practical implementation. The authors also describe a variety of approaches to co-operative learning drawn from complementary movements such as classroom research, writing across-the-curriculum, computer technology and critical thinking. They begin with a basic structure for implementing a co-operative learning programme, then move progressively through more complex activities. Numerous examples of actual co-operative learning programmes are included which span a wide variety of disciplines. These examples underscore how a successful programme can bolster student achievement, increase self-esteem, and foster the spirit of teamwork. This book should appeal to those new to the cooperative learning process, as well as to established practitioners in the field.
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Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty

Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty

by Philip G. Cottell
Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty

Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty

by Philip G. Cottell

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This practical, how-to book on co-operative learning is designed to serve as a resource for faculty members at colleges and universities. It offers an overview of the co-operative learning process, including its rationale, its research base, its value, and its practical implementation. The authors also describe a variety of approaches to co-operative learning drawn from complementary movements such as classroom research, writing across-the-curriculum, computer technology and critical thinking. They begin with a basic structure for implementing a co-operative learning programme, then move progressively through more complex activities. Numerous examples of actual co-operative learning programmes are included which span a wide variety of disciplines. These examples underscore how a successful programme can bolster student achievement, increase self-esteem, and foster the spirit of teamwork. This book should appeal to those new to the cooperative learning process, as well as to established practitioners in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780897749909
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/24/1997
Series: American Council on Education Series on Higher Education
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Barbara J. Millis is currently associate director for faculty development at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs.::Cottell, Jr. /f Philip /b Philip G. Cottell, Jr., is currently professor of accountancy, Miami University Oxford, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface
Overviews of Cooperative Learning and Teaching and Learning
An Overview of Cooperative Learning in Higher Education
Why Change?
Classroom Management
Planning a Cooperative Course
Managing a Cooperative Classroom
Structuring the Cooperative Classroom
Beginning Structures
Structures for Problem Solving in Teams
Basic Paired Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching
Specialized Uses of Cooperative-Learning Principles
Using Cooperative Technology to Enhance Learning
Assessing the Cooperative Classroom
Promoting Learning through Responsible Assessment
Using Teacher-Collected Assessment Data to Strengthen Cooperative Courses
Colleague-Assisted Assessment Procedures
Supportive Cooperative Efforts
Supporting Faculty's Cooperative Efforts
Bibliography
Index
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