You can avoid the traps of cooperative learning.

From: The Clearing House | Date: May 1, 1994| Author: Lindblad, Arnold H., Jr. | Copyright information

Good teachers constantly seek new ways to improve the learning of their students. They introduce new materials, innovative manipulatives, and creative teaching styles into their classrooms. Those innovations with little impact are quickly dismissed and replaced with other new ideas. Some, however, change form and re-enter the teaching arena.

One such returning idea is cooperative learning. In its purest form, cooperative learning is merely a few people getting together to stu...

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