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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.

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.

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.

"Digital Learning Day: Celebrating Innovative Teaching Strategies"

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 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.

This site offers times and locations for different conferences to help educators better themselves. Also has direct link to some journals associated with technology, and books for the kids as well. Also include a Teacher Resources tab with PDF files of problems with teaching strategies as well as group managment tips.

Professional development events, online traing, and teacher resources.

This site provides professional development resources for teachers such as teaching strategies, classroom and behavior management, and assessments. Also give help with certain grades, subject, and lesson plans.

This site includes a lot of professional resources for Teachers.