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Author: Nancy Frey
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1416608834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind out how matching research-based principles of collaborative learning with practical action can make all group work productive group work, with all students engaged.
Author: Daniel D. Suthers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 719
ISBN-13: 1461489601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe key idea of the book is that scientific and practical advances can be obtained if researchers working in traditions that have been assumed to be mutually incompatible make a real effort to engage in dialogue with each other, comparing and contrasting their understandings of a given phenomenon and how these different understandings can either complement or mutually elaborate on each other. This key idea applies to many fields, particularly in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as education and computer science. The book shows how we have achieved this by presenting our study of collaborative learning during the course of a four-year project. Through a series of five workshops involving dozens of researchers, the 37 editors and authors involved in this project studied and reported on collaborative learning, technology enhanced learning, and cooperative work. The authors share an interest in understanding group interactions, but approach this topic from a variety of traditional disciplinary homes and theoretical and methodological traditions. This allows the book to be of use to researchers in many different fields and with many different goals and agendas.
Author: Laura Lipton
Publisher:
Published: 2024-03-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781962188395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Groups at Work: Strategies and Structures for Professional Learning, authors Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman provide leaders with the tools to design and prepare productive and efficient group meetings and interactions. The seventy-eight strategies included in the book are organized into six functions reflecting the major activities that engage productive groups and lead to purposeful process design: (1) activating, (2) assessing, goal setting, and planning, (3) dialogue and discussion, (4) generating ideas, (5) summarizing and synthesizing, and (6) text and informational processing. When groups own their processes, actions, and outcomes, and share an understanding of procedures and protocols, they become more cooperative, coordinated, and skillful"--
Author: Angela M. O'Donnell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1135688192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contribution of this book to the literature on peer learning is its focus on approaches to peer learning that are concerned with its underlying cognitive processes.
Author: Ronald Williamson
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is clear evidence that students who are involved in productive collaborative groups outperform their peers. Cooperative group work also results in improved self-esteem, improved relationships and enhanced social and decision-making skills. Johnson and Johnson (1993) identified the elements of a successful collaborative activity. They include individual and group accountability as well as the explicit teaching of the interpersonal and small-group skills needed for successful collaborative work. Student accountability can be strengthened by designing lessons that emphasize larger learning goals, include a series of interim steps, provide clear timelines for each step, and ask students to evaluate their individual as well as group work. Critical interpersonal and small-group skills include communicating clearly, active listening, constructively responding to peers (both providing and receiving feedback) and considering different perspectives. (Contains 13 online resources and 11 print resources.).
Author: Dina Brulles
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Published: 2018-12-18
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1631982850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaster flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to challenge every learner, every day. Grouping learners purposefully throughout the school day based on their needs and the curriculum remains the single best way to differentiate instruction. This award-winning guide will help teachers expertly use flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to respond to students’ diverse learning needs, abilities, and interests. Included are methods for creating groups based on assessment data, planning group lessons and tiered assignments, engaging learners at all levels, supporting personalized learning, grading collaborative work, and communicating with parents about the benefits of groupwork and productive struggle. Digital content contains all forms from the book and a PDF presentation. A free online PLC/Book Study Guide is available at freespirit.com/PLC.
Author: Buster Benson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0525540105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? Do you avoid certain family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering tension that you can't figure out how to address? Now, finally, there's a solution: a new framework that frees you from the trap of unproductive conflict and pointless arguing forever. If the threat of raised voices, emotional outbursts, and public discord makes you want to hide under the conference room table, you're not alone. Conflict, or the fear of it, can be exhausting. But as this powerful book argues, conflict doesn't have to be unpleasant. In fact, properly channeled, conflict can be the most valuable tool we have at our disposal for deepening relationships, solving problems, and coming up with new ideas. As the mastermind behind some of the highest-performing teams at Amazon, Twitter, and Slack, Buster Benson spent decades facilitating hard conversations in stressful environments. In this book, Buster reveals the psychological underpinnings of awkward, unproductive conflict and the critical habits anyone can learn to avoid it. Armed with a deeper understanding of how arguments, you'll be able to: Remain confident when you're put on the spot Diffuse tense moments with a few strategic questions Facilitate creative solutions even when your team has radically different perspectives Why Are We Yelling will shatter your assumptions about what makes arguments productive. You'll find yourself having fewer repetitive, predictable fights once you're empowered to identify your biases, listen with an open mind, and communicate well.
Author: Douglas Fisher
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1416618309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this updated 2nd edition of the ASCD best-seller, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey dig deeper into the hows and whys of the gradual release of responsibility instructional framework. To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to be engaged and self-directed learners. On a day-to-day level, it means delivering lessons purposefully planned to incorporate four essential and interrelated instructional phases: Focused Instruction: Preparing students for learning by establishing lesson purpose, modeling strategies and skills, thinking aloud, and noticing how students respond. Guided Instruction: Strategically using prompts, cues, and questions to lead students to new understanding. Collaborative Learning: Allowing students to consolidate their understanding through exploration, problem-solving, discussion, and thinking with their peers. Independent Learning: Requiring students to use the skills and knowledge they've acquired to create authentic products and ask new questions. The authors explore each phase, using real-life examples from a variety of disciplines. You'll find tips and tools for classroom implementation, including checklists for planning and assessment; advice on feedback, homework, group work, differentiated instruction, and blended learning; answers to frequently asked questions; and examples that align to Common Core State Standards. No matter what grade level or subject you teach, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is your essential guide to helping students expand their capacity for successful and long-lasting learning.
Author: David Boud
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-17
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1134252943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an accessible entry point into the theory and practice of work reflection for students and practitioners. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, it covers management, education, organizational psychology and sociology, drawing on examples from Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia. It traces reflection at work from an emphasis on training, through a focus on how organizations learn, to a concern with the necessary learning groups to operate effectively. It emphasizes productivity combined with satisfying lived experience of work life and points the way to a new collective focus on learning at work.
Author: John J. SanGiovanni
Publisher: Corwin
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1544369433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll students face struggle, and they should—it is how they learn and grow. The teacher’s job is not to remove struggle, but rather to value and harness it, helping students develop good habits of productive struggle. But what’s missing for many educators is an action plan for how to achieve this, especially when it comes to math. This book guides teachers through six specific actions—including valuing, fostering, building, planning, supporting, and reflecting on struggle—to create a game plan for overcoming obstacles by sharing · Actionable steps, activities, and tools for implementation · Instructional tasks representative of each grade level · Real-world examples showcasing classroom photos and student work
