Incorporating Cooperative Learning Effectively

 

When students are giving opportunities to interact with each other in a variety of ways their learning is enhanced.  Cooperative learning involves more than just placing students in groups.  They must learn and master skills for working in groups. 

Marzano's recommendations for classroom practice include:

  • using elements of cooperative learning

    • positive interdependence

    • face-to-face promotive interaction

    • individual and group accountability

    • interpersonal and small group skills

    • group processing
  • varying grouping criteria
  • managing group size (3-5 are recommentded)
 
What is Cooperative Learning?
Cooperative Learning

Technology Integration:
 
WebQuests
  • Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Page
    • components- introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion
    • has a doable and interesting task
    • requires higher level thinking
    • makes good use of the web
 

 

 
Online Projects
  • Projects By Jen
    • 8 projects a year that enables teachers to teach a concept, share their results, and compare/contrast their results with other classrooms all over the world
    • each project includes worksheets, website links and lesson ideas
Group Games
PowerPoint games- download these PowerPoint game templates and change to fit your classroom needs
 

Home  |  1-Similarities & Differences  |  2-Summarizing & Note-Taking  |  3-Effort & Recognition

4-Homework & Practice  |  5-Non-Linguistics Representations  |  6-Cooperative Learning

7-Objectives & Feedback  |  8-Hypotheses  |  9-Questions, Cues, & Adv. Organizers

created by Sherri Miller, ITRT, Gloucester County Public Schools
VSTE Conference ~ February, 2008