Encouraging Students to Work Cooperatively In and Out of Class

Agenda:

Morning workshop topics-

    1. Comparing cooperative and collaborative learning paradigms using cooperative writing and Pair-reading activities

      2. http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/tedsarticles/coopdefinition.htm
       
    2. Using a Write and Swap cooperative activity to explore the benefits of student centered learning

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    3. Group processing- how can our groups work more effectively?
    4.  Round Robin brain storming activity to explore faculty concerns regarding the implementation of cooperative learning programs.
Afternoon workshop topics-
    1. Icebreaker- What 5 things does your group have in common?
2. Dealing with large amounts of information through a cooperative activity known as the Jig Saw method to analyze the psychological benefits of cooperative learning.               http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/tedsarticles/coopbenefits.htm
    1. Group Processing using T-charts
    2. One Minute paper- An assessment tool which will help us reflect upon the days Activities- this will be followed by the pair-share in #6
    3. Think-Pair-Share followed by a whole group discussion- where do we go from here?


Additional web sites dealing with CL

Sabotaging Cooperative Learning: or, Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

http://www2.emc.maricopa.edu/innovation/CCL/sabo.html

Teaching and Learning Methods and Strategies

http://www.u.arizona.edu:80/ic/edtech/strategy.html

Cooperative/Collaborative Learning - Faculty Liaison- Neil Davidson

http://www2.emc.maricopa.edu/innovation/CCL/CCL.html

ACTIVE AND COOPERATIVE LEARNING (R.M. Felder)

http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Cooperative_Learning.html

The Jig Saw Classroom

http://www.jigsaw.org/