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This guide provides a step-by-step approach for implementing cooperative learning, covers the key factors that make this method work, and provides guidelines for measuring the program's effectiveness.
Putting Cooperative Learning into Practice
Putting Cooperative Learning into Practice
This chapter looks at examples of putting cooperative learning into practice in lessons. It supports lesson planning and provides guidance on assessment with links to assessment for learning.
The previous chapter set out the steps to implementing cooperative learning ending with Step 5, that is, how to incorporate it into lessons. This will now be examined in detail.
Incorporating Cooperative Learning into Lessons
The majority of lessons will benefit from informal cooperative learning, using learning partners as discussed on page 43. Figure 6.1 illustrates the benefits of providing partner work to support learning across the curriculum. See also Appendix 8 for a range of quick cooperative learning starter activities.
Figure 6.1 Examples of informal cooperative learning (with acknowledgement to facilitators ...
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