Cooperative learning in schools -- Key components in establishing successful cooperative groups -- Teachers' discourse to promote student thinking and learning -- Strategies to promote student discourse -- Group composition -- Assessing small-group learning -- Teachers' responsibilities in establishing cooperative learning -- Future developments in using small groups
Summary
"Gilles focuses the majority of the book on the relationship in the classroom between the individual teacher and the students. She gives teachers ammunition to overcome resistance to cooperative learning by presenting well-substantiated research on virtually every page of her book showing the benefits of having students study together."--Ted Wohlfarth, PSYCCRITIQUES "This text's greatest strengths are bringing together a range of powerful teaching strategies connected to students taking r
