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Cooperative Learning:  The Graduate Course - CD

Instructor’s Manual

©Not Available

This course teaches participants the theory and research of cooperative learning and the structural approach to cooperative learning developed by Dr. Spencer Kagan.  The course guides participants in the acquisition of a wide range of practical instructional methods called Co-op Structures, and provides them with a theoretical framework which helps teachers decide which structure to use a different points in the instructional cycle.

CL2.

Cooperative Learning & Higher Level Thinking (2)

The Q-Matrix

With Hands-On Question Manipulatives

by Dr. Chuck W. Wiederhold

©1995

This book provides us with one set of incredibly powerful tools designed to restructure the thinking of students.  The fresh approach to teaching thinking skills-through materials which generate questioning – is applicable from preschool to post-university.  The Q-Matrix should be heralded as a set of empowering tools to be placed in every teacher’s toolbox. 

CL3.

Cooperative Learning Series

4 part Video Set & Facilitator’s Guide

by ASCD

© 1990

This series focuses on techniques for successfully using cooperative learning in the classroom.  The video programs show cooperative learning in action, explain how to plan and implement cooperative lessons, and present different techniques for structuring lessons. 

CL4.

What’s This Got to Do With Anything?  A Collection of Group/Class Builders and Energizers by Jim Craigen and Chris Ward

© Jim Craigen and Chris Ward

A collection of tried and true activities, which promote building of the caring co-operative classroom.  In order for Co-operative Learning to be successful, it must take place in an atmosphere of mutual support that promotes risk taking and sharing.

CL5.

Question Manipulatives

Grades2-12  A complete set for every team.

by Chuck Wiederhold, Ph.D.

©Not Available

Chuck Wiederhold has written a book, Cooperative Learning and Critical Thinking: The Question Matrix, available from Kagan Cooperative Learning.  When the Question Manipulatives are used with the suggested structures and model lessons contained in this book, your students will become empowered with imagination, curiosity, and enthusiasm as they construct and ask their own questions across all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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The Cooperative Classroom:  Social and Academic Activities

By Jacqueline Rhoades and Margaret E. McCabe

©1993

The activities included in this book follow the same general pattern found in the Simple Cooperation model.  Simple cooperation approaches instruction of social skills in a sequential, deliberate manner.  Rather than teaching the specific social skill needed for today’s lesson or worse, assuming students will gain these skills as a side effect of the group process, the simple cooperation model incorporates specific social skills as a part of the curriculum.  At least one of the authors has used every activity and technique in this book.  They hope you and your students will enjoy using these ideas as much as they do. 

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The Teacher’s Sourcebook for Cooperative Learning

By George M. Jacobs, Michael A. Power and Loh Wan Inn