Cooperative learning, teaching

Towns, M., Grant, E. (1998). I believe I will go out of this class actually knowing something Cooperative learning activities in physical chemistry. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 34, 819-835. 

Students are asked to work in small groups of two or three to enable cooperative learning processes. Each student receives a researcher s booklet that contains all working sheets and safety instructions. The students are guided through the whole teaching module by this booklet. All experiments start with a short delineation of a problem that needs to be solved experimentally. The booklets contain space to record hypotheses, ideas, sketches, observations, notes and experimental activities. 

All computer technology requires multiple users for each machine (optimal between 2 to 1 and 4 to 1) in order to achieve cooperative learning, (or kids teaching each other). This variable might be called student-computer rath. 

Teaching Environmental Toxicology by Cooperative Learning Methods... 

Putnam, J. (1993) The movement toward teaching and learning in inclusive classrooms , in J. Putnam (ed.) Cooperative Learning and Strategies for Inclusion, Baltimore Paul H. Brookes. 

Strengthening iimovative teaching methods, hke cooperative learning (see Chapter 7). 

In the literature, several basic modes of cooperative learning are described. The basic models differ in their structure and the levels of guidance given to the students, who work in small groups. Some of the basic models are discussed below. In addition to the basic models of cooperative learning detailed below, there is also a wide variety of cooperative teaching techniques (Sharan, 2004). Some of... 

Insights into other methods and their implementation in chemistry teaching can be found in Chapters 1 and 6. The connection of cooperative learning with the use of modem ICT (CSCL, Computer Supported Cooperative Learning) is discussed in... 

The literature (e g. Sharan, 2004) suggests a lot of different techniques to promote cooperative learning. Think-Pair-Share and the Ball-Bearing method presented above are two of the methods. In the following section two examples for organizing a whole lesson plan in a cooperative mode will be presented and illustrated by examples Ifom chemistry teaching. 

Student centred learning approaches are important within chemistry teaching. Specific pedagogies (cooperative learning) and laboratory techniques (e.g. micro-scale and low-cost-chemistry experiments) are available to promote student active learning in developing and emerging country environments. 

Wink, D. J. (2005) Relevance and learning theory. In Chemists Guide to Effective Teaching, eds. N. Pienta, M. M. Cooper, and T. Greenbowe. Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall. 

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