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Use these strategies to improve your students' cooperative learning skills. Included are articles to teach you about each concept and lesson plans with which you can implement the strategies. These are great professional development resources and are an excellent resource to ensure that you are improving your professional skill set.

Several different articles about cooperative learning strategies.

This presentation outlines 60+ strategies for activities and cooperative learning.

I like how they use presentation slides to outline the strategies.

Cooperative Learning strategies, games, and software

View Study Skills View Organizers Cooperative Learning Instruction Strategies For a teacher who is trying to teach through cooperative learning from the teacher's resources or lesson plans, he or she might face problems of discipline or noisy lessons as after all it's just a class full of students.

This article has several ideas for small group activities that build skills and promote teamwork. It focuses on building learning strategies with diverse learners. I really like this website and will be using it it the future for teaching Reading and helping those that are struggling with this subject. ABCs of Teaching Reading classroom strategies helping struggling readers, reading topics from a-z Cooperative Learning has been proven to be effective for all types of students, including academically gifted, mainstream students and English language learners (ELLs) because it promotes learning and fosters respect and friendships among diverse groups of students. In fact, the more diversity in a team, the higher the benefits for each student. Peers learn to depend on each other in a positive way for a variety of learning tasks. Students typically work in teams of four. This way, they can break into pairs for some activities, and then get back together in teams very quickly for others. It is important, however, to establish classroom norms and protocols that guide students to: Contribute Stay on task Help each other Encourage each other Share Solve problems Give and accept feedback from peers

Laura Candler's Cooperative Learning Resources Cooperative learning is a powerful teaching strategy that's more than just a passing fad. Research has shown that when implemented properly, students in cooperative learning classrooms outperform their peers in traditional classrooms. The key is knowing how to implement the strategies to foster interaction while making sure all students are held accountable.

Laura Candler's website is a great way to learn more about cooperative learning. Her website includes great learning pages, and also printable's that you can use in your classroom. 

Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy that simultaneously addresses academic and social skill learning by students. It is a well-researched instructional strategy and has been reported to be highly successful in the classroom. For a more in depth explanation of this strategy, follow this link to the self-guided tutorial.

This website discusses how to use cooperative learning techniques with pre-schoolers. It focuses on teachers concerns about using cooperative learning with low status students who will not participate and/or that high status students will take over the group. Teachers must create groups that are equitable so that all students participate fully and use multiple-ability strategies (Cohen, 1998) if cooperative learning is to work. Teachers also need to convince students of three things: That different intellectual abilities are required in cooperative learning, that no one student has all of the abilities needed, but that each member of the group will have some of the abilities (Cohen, 1998).

A website that offeres a overview of what exactly Cooperative Learning is. Also includes the elements and some examples for teachers to run through with their students.

The website gives a good description of cooperative learning, gives reasons to why you should use it in your classroom, and gives a nice list of different activities that could be done with this strategy. 

Learn about the teacher and student editions of your textbook. Watch short video clips of commentaries, teaching strategies, and best teaching practices-correlated to your textbooks. See step-by-step instructions for using your McGraw-Hill technology programs. Participate with your collegues in these typical online learning events.

Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement.

Introduction Cooperative Learning! A fascinating concept. Humans are social beings. Transescents are VerySeemingly, then, cooperative learning would be an excellent fit for the middle level classroom. What better place than in the middle level classroom for young people to begin learning to cooperate. Yet, it carries so much controversy.

This webpage has different strategies and activities for cooperative learning.

This site is one teachers approach to tried and tested strategies for interactive learning

This web site offers free videos and video summaries, webinars and help for teachers to improve themselves and student learning. Also offers strategies of the week and PD 360 degrees.

"Digital Learning Day: Celebrating Innovative Teaching Strategies"

This site has an article that contains strategies and techniques for teachers to use in their classroom. The website also has resources for lessons, WebQuests, games, and much more.

Overview Working in small groups Cooperative Learning Strategies Learning Role Cards Role of parents/carers in the classroom Working in small groups Small group work is one way of ensuring active participation of students. Group work may challenge many teachers as control of classroom knowledge and organisation is passed to the students.

Teachers are lifelong learners. In fact, ongoing education is a requirement for teachers of every public school level, from kindergarten through 12th grade. Known as professional development, this education -- usually in the form of workshops, seminars and training courses -- helps teachers stay up to date with new trends and learn fresh strategies, techniques and methods for classroom challenges.