Cooperative+Learning

=Cooperative Learning=

Research
You are seeing and learning a lot about cooperative learning in Dr. Grace's class. There's not time to learn it all in her class, so this Teacher Tool Kit topic is for those who want to know more of the research behind Cooperative Learning and additional techniques for teaching cooperation through the structures. Below are resources to read or to watch. Any with an asterisk are required for you to use. Otherwise, select 3 or more to read/view/absorb. Additionally, using appropriate college-level research skills, you must find a resource not on this list that gives you additional insights to this topic. A professional interview with an expert-in-the-field is an appropriate resource. (3 of mine and 1 of yours is the required minimum...feel free to use more resources...see me if you want to substitute some of yours for mine)
 * *A summary of the science of Cooperative Learning and its top researchers (the summary is by Dr. Theresa, the research is by others)
 * ...under construction... use the links provided in the overview to find additional resources...

Reflect
Create a reflection (write/record/document) in your personal digital classroom management kit that captures your reflections on your research. It should be apparent from your documentation that you actually took in information from the 4 sources, i.e. don't just list the book you read or the video you watched, but include some actual information from the resource. In your reflection you can agree and/or disagree with the author/creator(s) of each resource. Be sure to cite your resources.

Proactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? How will you apply it to how you want to manage your classroom? Describe one or more proactive approaches to this topic that you hope to incorporate into your classroom management.

Reactive
Now that you have this information on this classroom management topic, what are you going to do with it? Even though you have a great proactive approach to dealing with this topic, there will come the day when the unexpected situation will arise in this area. Using the given scenario or creating one of your own, describe one or more reactive approaches you might take. Be sure to document how/why you know this is an effective reactive technique (i.e., cite one or more of your research sources).

Scenario

 * You have two students who absolutely don't get along and will often break into a fight if they get within 6 feet of each other. Even with all your efforts to create a cooperative environment, how do you handle these two?