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- Training von Basiswissen mit Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT; DEVRIES & SLAVIN, 1978; SLAVIN, 1986) TGT ähnelt STAD in weiten Teilen. Auch hier sind es heterogene Vierergruppen,...
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- Short cooperative activities for 45 minute lessonsUse short team building activities as a teaching strategy when you want to actively engage your students and provide brisk paci...
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- Strategies to Strengthen the Use of Cooperative Learning in SchoolsNew forms of professional development are needed for teachers at all stages of their careers so that they can ...
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- Reflection on Your Work Together…Group ProcessingIt is important for you to assess your work along the way and at the end. Why do you think such assessment could be valuab...
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- A REMINDER OF THE BENEFITSPerhaps you’re thinking that it would be a lot easier just to mastermind the whole process of developing a project or preparing a presentation yourself...
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- CAN’T I JUST ASK FOR A NEW GROUP?Sometimes that might seem like the best solution but teachers are often hesitant to consider that option for several reasons. Part of their deci...
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- Here are Ten Common Pitfalls of Group Projects and Presentations. As a group, discuss each one and decide how you as a team would deal with them.1. One person taking charge and ...
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- FIVE FACTORS Students Need to Consider Researchers in co-operative learning have identified five key elements that should be built into all group assignments. When these factors...
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CL and Group Projects Part 1
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- Cooperative Learning and Group Projects andPresentationsPart 1Students need an opportunity to discuss the challenges and responsibilities of working in groups. This reading is w...
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- 10 Practical Team Building ActivitiesWelcome…if you have come directly to this session you might find it valuable to reviews the previous 2 sessions. Teambuilding: Getting...
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- Some Practical Ideas that Support Team Building In this session we will explore the practical steps teachers can take to facilitate team building activitiesincluding:A. What nee...
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- Teambuilding: Getting Students Ready to Work Together.Teambuilding activities increase the ability of students to work together. The process of developing teams involves buildin...
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Lesson 2: Week 1, Day 1
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- Week 1 – Day 1“Start Small, Think Big”Rationale The idea ”Start small and think big” is more than a catchy phrase. It is the perfect way to introduce cooperati...
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- Week 1Implementing Cooperative Learning in Your ClassroomThis sample implementation schedule spans four weeks. It is meant only to give you a starting point and should be adjust...
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- Introduction: The First Four Weeks of Cooperative Learning The Purpose of these Lessons This series of e-learning lessons have been written to offer suggestions ...
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- Explanataion of the 5 Basic Elements of Cooperative Learning“Just because you put students in groups doesn’t mean they’ll work as a team.”The first and m...
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- “Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.” Vision to Action: Practical Strategies ...
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18 - Thank You
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- We hope that you have found the information on these pages to be informative and interesting. We are looking forward to reading your comments.
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- Making Group Assignments WorkWhen students are assigned to prepare and present a group project, I use a number of strategies to enhance the experience of students and the effect...
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- Fostering Peer Collaboration through a Computer-Mediated Communication SystemStructuring student discussion on a computer-mediated communication (CMC) (blog) system offers an in...
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- Exam Performance Feedback Using a Structured Collaborative ExerciseIn this exercise, small groups of students discuss the answers to an exam which they have taken but for which ...
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14 - Simple Peer Techniques
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- Simple Peer Techniques“One of my main goals was for students to come to appreciate the critical role that observations and experiments play in science.” At the...
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- Team Learning in Organic ChemistryWe are using a version of team learning to teach Introductory Organic Chemistry. On the first day of class, we describe the basics of team lear...
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- Collaborative Test ReviewTo relieve test anxiety and give students an idea of the kind of tests I design (especially before the first exam of the semester), I use a collaborativ...
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- Instantaneous Small Groups in Large Lecture SettingsWhen I lecture to a large class—up to 300 students—I have developed a modest strategy for keeping students’ attention and get...
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10 - Experimental Psychology
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- Understanding Research Articles in Experimental PsychologyIn my Experimental Psychology class, I like to reinforce concepts from the course by having students read research arti...
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9 - The First Day of Class
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- Collaborative Learning: The First Day of ClassDescription: This exercise is widely used by faculty on our campus who want to establish a collaborative setting from the very begi...
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7 - Active Learning
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- Active Learningby L. Dee FinkMany university teachers today want to move past passive learning to active learning, to find better ways of engaging students in the learning ...
