Blueprints for Achievement in the Cooperative Classroom [Paperback]

Formerly a SkyLight publication

This step-by-step classic embeds the teaching of critical thinking within the cooperative learning setting, explicitly linking the strategies that best support learning.

Formerly a SkyLight publication

This step-by-step classic embeds the teaching of critical thinking within the cooperative learning setting, explicitly linking the strategies that best support learning.

Abstract
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Forming
1. Why Bother with Cooperative Learning?
2. How Do I Get Started?
II. Norming
3. How Do I Develop Students' Social Skills?
4. How Do I Create High-Challenge Tasks?
III. Conforming
5. How Do I Expand Thinking in the Classroom?
6. How Do I Build Power Lessons in the Cooperative Classroom?
IV. Storming
7. How Do I Keep Them Thinking in the High-Achieving Classroom?
8. What Happens When They Do Not Agree?
V. Performing
9. How Do I Promote Transfer in the High-Achieving Classroom?
10. What About Grades, Standards, and Test Scores?
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix C: Blacklines
Bibliography
Index