Teaching Cooperative Learning: The Challenge for Teacher Education (Teacher Preparation and Development) (SUNY series, Teacher Preparation and Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791459705 ISBN 13: 9780791459706

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2004

Synopsis

Explores cooperative learning practices.

Winner of the 2004 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association

Teacher educators from ten institutions and programs in the United States, Canada, and Germany describe the ways in which they have changed teacher preparation to more fully incorporate cooperative learning concepts. Analytical commentaries on the programs highlight the learning experience of these programs as well as underlying issues of needed reforms in teacher education.

Included among best practices in education, cooperative learning may require a shift in program philosophy and disciplinary areas to meet the challenge of complex organizations and diverse student populations. As the essays in the volume demonstrate, a new alignment of field experiences to provide support for novices to implement cooperative strategies, and to receive timely and effective supervision for these attempts, may also be required.

About this title

About the Author

Mara Sapon-Shevin is a professor in the Teaching and Leadership Program at Syracuse University. She teaches in the Inclusive Elementary and Special Education Teacher Education Program which provides teacher preparation for heterogeneous classrooms. Her areas of interest and expertise include full inclusion of students with disabilities, cooperative learning, teacher education and anti-racism, and diversity education. She is the author of many book chapters and articles related to these topics, and is a frequent presenter within the United States and abroad. She is active in teacher education reforms as well as school change projects throughout the country.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791459705
• ISBN 13: 9780791459706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Cohen Elizabeth G.