1st Edition
Learning to Learn together Cooperation, theory, and practice
Foreword Mark Brundrett
Introduction – Learning to learn together: cooperation, theory and practice Wendy Jolliffe
1. Cooperative learning in elementary schools Robert E. Slavin
2. The challenges of implementing group work in primary school classrooms and including pupils with special educational needs Ed Baines, Peter Blatchford and Rob Webster
3. Status problem and expectations of competence: a challenging path for teachers Isabella Pescarmona
4. The Storyline approach: promoting learning through cooperation in the second language classroom Sharon Ahlquist
5. How to integrate cooperative skills training into learning tasks: an illustration with young pupils’ writing Katia Lehraus
6. Bridging the gap: teachers cooperating together to implement cooperative learning Wendy Jolliffe
7. Meaningful learning in the cooperative classroom Yael Sharan
Biography
Wendy Jolliffe is Head of Teacher Education at the University of Hull, UK. She has worked as a national and local adviser for teacher training and literacy, and was Deputy Head of a Primary school in Hull before moving into higher education. Her teaching and research interests have focused on the implementation of cooperative learning, which is the subject of her PhD. She has run professional development courses in this country and overseas on this subject. She is the author of Cooperative Learning in the Classroom: putting it into practice (2007), and is a member of the Board of International Association for the Study of Cooperative Education.
