Session I:
Overview of Issues About Group Learning |
Session II:
Cooperative, Competitive & Individualistic Approaches |
Content:
- Recall Past Experiences With Group Learning
- Identify Concerns About Assigning Group Projects
- Brainstorm Issues Needing to be Addressed Before Assigning Group Work
- Identify Types of Cooperative Learning Groups
- Examine School Wide Issues Related to Group Work
- Understand Faculty Dynamics Which Support Group Action
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Content:
- Compare and Contrast 3 Approaches to Learning
- Identify Strengths and Weakness of Each Approach
- Identify Outcomes Best Achieved by Each Method
- Examine Research Findings Regarding Social Inter-Dependence
- Master 5 Essential Components of Successful Group Projects
- Discover 6 Teacher Benefits of Group Projects
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Session III:
Benefits and Needs for Team Skills |
Session IV:
Maximizing Individual Differences in Groups |
Content:
- Examine The Needs of Employers For Team Players
- Identify Interpersonal and Group Skills Needed by Students and Citizens
- Examine Benefits of Group Work to Students and Teachers
- Understand Effective Learning Research Regarding Different Forms of Teaching and Learning
- Understand Research on Achievement and Competitiveness
- Survey Psychological and Educational Roots of Cooperative Learning and Social Interdependence
- Survey History of Practical Implementation of Cooperative Learning
- Identify 7 Positive Outcomes of Cooperation
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Content:
- Understand Challenges and Benefits of Different Personality Strengths in Groups
- Apply Learning Styles Research to Group Process and Lesson Design
- Teach Students to Appreciate and Utilize Member Differences
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Session V:
Skills Needed by Students for Group Work |
Session VI:
Insuring Fair Participation & Grading of Group Projects |
Content:
- The 12 Inch Voice
- Listening and Accepting Differing Opinions and Ideas
- Negotiating Project Approaches and Tasks
- Keeping Focused and On-Task
- Constructive Confrontation and Conflict Resolution
- Learning 9 Needed Group Roles
- Roles of the Teacher as Facilitator and Supervisor
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Content:
- Identify 9 Forces Hindering Group Performance
- Ways to Structure Positive Interdependence
- Ways to Divide Group Work Roles Equally
- Grading Methods Which Tie Reward to Effort and Performance
- Survey Many Types of Assessments Including Performance-Based, Authentic, Total Quality Learning, Peer Assessment, Self-Rating
- Teaching Students How to Handle Problems Which Arise
- Group Processing Skills for Students and Teachers
- Group Celebrations as a Culminating Activity
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Session VII:
Many Structures, Many Outcomes |
Session VIII:
Teacher Competencies To Facilitate Group Learning |
Content:
- Ways Groups Can be Used to Achieve Learning Outcomes
- Deciding Group Size, Student Assignments, Room Arrangement, and Group Roles
- Structuring Tasks, Outcomes, and Creating Common Goals
- Specifying Individual and Group Behaviors
- Identify Different Types of Cooperative Lessons
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Content:
- From "Sage On The Stage" to "Guide On The Side"
- Teacher Skills and Behaviors: Teaching vs. Facilitating
- Monitoring and Intervening
- 8 Guidelines for Teacher Monitoring
- Providing Task Assistance and Social Skills
- Processing and Providing Closure
- "If You're Working Too Hard You're Not Letting The Students Learn It!" - Facilitating - Learning by Doing
- Ways to Make Cooperative Group Work Motivating
- Reasons Cooperative Learning is Worth the Effort
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Session IX:
Options, Functions & Types of Groups in All Subjects |
Session X:
Planning, Implementation & Obtaining Support |
Content:
- Learn Informal and Formal Group Structures
- Examine 5 Long-Term Benefits of Group Work
- Integrating Types of Cooperative Learning in a Lesson or Unit
- 3 Essential Group Roles
- 4 Levels of Cooperative Skills
- 5 Steps in Teaching Cooperative Skills
- Examine Cooperative Learning Lessons for Various Subject Areas
- Learn Guidelines for Creating Lessons and Projects
- Ways of Sharing Products and Outcomes
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Content:
- Designing Lessons and Projects for Implementation
- Methods for Obtaining Professional Support and Assistance
- Selling the Program to Parents and Administrators
- 3 Key Activities of a Teaching Team
- 3 Steps for Creating a Cooperative School
- 7 Characteristics of a Cooperative School
- 5 Steps for Refining Cooperative Learning
- 5 Leadership Actions for School Improvement
- Start Small and Build on Successes
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