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Cooperative Work Groups
Preparing Students for the Real World
- Scott M. Mandel - Pacoima Middle School, Pacoima, CA
August 2003 | 192 pages | Corwin
In his new book, Scott Mandel outlines how educators can design meaningful learning experiences that will address standards and utilise modern-day Co-operative learning, brain research, and the Internet to effectively develop a student's ability to thrive in the twenty-first century's workforce.
The co-operative learning techniques put forth in Cooperative Work Groups are designed to emphasize the students' best individual learning styles and integrate the newest technology into the students' work, ensuring their success as individuals working together in groups on long-term projects in today's work society.
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Part I: The Way Students Accomplish Tasks
1. An Advanced, Modern Form of Cooperative Learning
2. Group Formation
3. Leadership
4. Materials
5. Teacher Role: Critical Thinking and Classroom Management
6. Assessment
Part II: The Way Students Learn Effectively and Efficiently
7. Brain Research: The Multiple Intelligences
8. Teacher Use of the Multiple Intelligences
9. Integrating the Multiple Intelligences Into Cooperative Work Group Experiences
Part III: The Internet as the Ultimate Educational Resource Center
10. The Concept, Reality, and Cost of Digital Literacy
11. How to Locate Curricular Material on the Internet
12. Integrating the Internet Into Cooperative Work Group Experiences
13. Summary
Part IV: Some Practical Examples of Teacher Unit Plans
Resource A: Index of URLs
Resource B: Student Multiple Intelligence Assessments
Resource C: An Example of an Internet Acceptable Use Policy Contract
Resource D: A Cooperative Work Group Lesson Plan Form
References
Index