Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms: A Casebook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807737011 ISBN 13: 9780807737019

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 1998

Synopsis

While groupwork in heterogeneous classrooms is recommended in most current reforms of teaching, questions and dilemmas about its implementation still persist.. In this timely resource, 16 teachers describe their experiences with groupwork in vivid detail, focusing on both their successes and failures. Their compelling stories are excellent discussion catalysts that will lead teachers to examine their own views, prejudices, and attitudes toward typical dilemmas on groupwork in their classrooms. Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms presents actual cases that will help teachers use groupwork in their classroom. The companion Facilitator’s Guide to this volume provides information needed to use the cases in structured professional development experiences.

This dynamic text addresses such crucial issues as:

. using groupwork effectively

. designing groupwork tasks

. assessing group activities

. deciding when and how to intervene

. crafting groups that support learning for all students

. dealing with uncooperative students and status problems

. communicating with parents

About this title

Book Description

“This interesting and provocative volume could not arrive at a better time....Teachers and teacher educators will find
Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms
helpful for considering issues of theory in practice....The
Facilitator’s Guide
is an added gift.”
From the Foreword by
Linda Darling-Hammond
, Teachers College, Columbia University

“It is rich in theoretical and practical import, tackles a subject that is of great interest to nearly every teacher in the country, and includes a marvelous set of cases that explore the dilemmas and complexities of teaching via groupwork. The supporting material, including an annotated bibliography and a facilitator’s guide, is first rate....A splendid achievement!”
Gary Sykes
, Michigan State University

“Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms
contains ‘straight talk’ from teachers about problems and benefits as well as the personal costs of introducing cooperative learning. Following an excellent overview of groupwork by the editors are brief, beautifully crafted cases written by teachers using groupwork in their classrooms. Working with the companion
Facilitator’s Guide
, teacher educators and staff developers have a powerful tool for making groupwork more effective in classrooms through case discussion.”
Elizabeth G. Cohen
, Stanford University

From the Author

Judith H. Shulman is director of the Institute for Case Development at WestEd. Rachel A. Lotan is co-director of the Program for Complex Instruction and senior research scholar at Stanford University School of Education. Jennifer A. Whitcomb is an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Denver and director of the Teacher Education Program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807737011
• ISBN 13: 9780807737019
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Shulman Judith H., Lotan Rachel A., Whitcomb Jennifer A.