The strategies for cooperative learning often encourage a mixing of children of abilities and an encouragement of conversation and cooperation, so students explain their thinking. This leads to students sharing ideas and a fostering of creativity where students are encouraged to solve problemsdifferently and to build on others ideas to come up with new strategies. This would give many more students opportunities for success after being presented with the material and would build on children's natural desire to talk and communicate their ideas. By giving students opportunities to partner with a diverse group of peers in ethnicity and academics that would be subtle, students can build their creativity while being exposed to others ideas and encouraged to have their
own. In such diverse classrooms it makes sense to capitalize on differences and encourage creative problem solving.
In order for this strategy to be successful teachers should:
Specify appropriate objectives, determine group size, assign students to heterogeneous groups with specific roles within the groups so they know how to work together, and arrange the room and groups to facilitate group work
Cooperative learning will provide a cognitively challenging and supportive environment that
will foster creativity if:
Students are taught why they're being asked to work together, students are shown how they're expected to interact, and the groups are encouraged to analyze their own effectiveness
The Teaching Phases for this Model:
Phase I: Determine the lesson to be Taught
Phase II: Determine the Appropriate Organizational Structure
Phase III: Define Lesson Objectives and “Role” Tasks
Phase IV: Determine How to Monitor Student's Work and Process the Lesson
Ideas for Cooperative Learning Lessons that will Foster Creativity:
Numbered Heads together,Think-Pair-Share, Teams Games Tournaments, Jigsaw strategy
More Teacher Resources:
http://fosteringcreativityinyourclassroom.blogspot.com/2009/07/cooperative-learning.html
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_38.pdf
http://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/earths-changing-surface/cooperative-learning-an-oldie-but-a-goodie
www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr287.shtml
How to Plan and Teach a Cooperative Learning Lesson | eHow.com
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http://math.nmsu.edu/breakingaway/
own. In such diverse classrooms it makes sense to capitalize on differences and encourage creative problem solving.
In order for this strategy to be successful teachers should:
Specify appropriate objectives, determine group size, assign students to heterogeneous groups with specific roles within the groups so they know how to work together, and arrange the room and groups to facilitate group work
Cooperative learning will provide a cognitively challenging and supportive environment that
will foster creativity if:
Students are taught why they're being asked to work together, students are shown how they're expected to interact, and the groups are encouraged to analyze their own effectiveness
The Teaching Phases for this Model:
Phase I: Determine the lesson to be Taught
Phase II: Determine the Appropriate Organizational Structure
Phase III: Define Lesson Objectives and “Role” Tasks
Phase IV: Determine How to Monitor Student's Work and Process the Lesson
Ideas for Cooperative Learning Lessons that will Foster Creativity:
Numbered Heads together,Think-Pair-Share, Teams Games Tournaments, Jigsaw strategy
More Teacher Resources:
http://fosteringcreativityinyourclassroom.blogspot.com/2009/07/cooperative-learning.html
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/IDEA_Paper_38.pdf
http://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/earths-changing-surface/cooperative-learning-an-oldie-but-a-goodie
www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr287.shtml
How to Plan and Teach a Cooperative Learning Lesson | eHow.com
www.ehow.com › Education
http://math.nmsu.edu/breakingaway/