Designing Groupwork : Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom,9780807733318

Designing Groupwork : Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780807733318
ISBN10: 0807733318
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-01-01
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary

This edition features new material on such topics as skill-building for more advanced students and how to use multiple-ability treatments. The book aims to combine easy-to-follow theory with examples and teaching strategies that are adaptable to any situation.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
John I. Goodlad
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface to Revised Edition xv
Groupwork as a Strategy for Classrooms
1(5)
What Is Groupwork?
1(2)
The Teacher as Educational Engineer
3(1)
Use of Research
4(1)
How True Are the Principles?
5(1)
Why Groupwork?
6(18)
Intellectual Goals
6(11)
Social Goals
17(2)
Solving Common Classroom Problems
19(5)
The Dilemma of Groupwork
24(15)
Behavior of Task-Oriented Groups
27(6)
Expectations and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
33(3)
Educational Disadvantages of Dominance and Inequality
36(3)
Preparing Students for Cooperation
39(23)
Training for Cooperation
41(16)
Cooperation and Anti-Social Behavior
57(3)
Norms as a Practical Classroom Tool
60(2)
Planning Groupwork in Stages
62(23)
Patterns for Working Together
62(5)
Creating the Task
67(3)
Preparing the Situation
70(9)
Planning Evaluation
79(5)
A Word About Time
84(1)
Giving Everyone a Part to Play
85(18)
Efficient and Effective Groups
87(1)
``How'' Roles
88(5)
Dividing the Labor
93(2)
Assigning Roles
95(3)
Developing Roles
98(2)
Long-Term Projects
100(3)
The Teacher's Role: Letting Go and Teaming Up
103(14)
Delegating Authority
104(9)
Working as a Team
113(4)
Treating Expectations for Competence
117(18)
Making a Low Status Student the Group Expert
118(1)
Expectation Training
119(3)
The Multiple Ability Strategy
122(8)
Assigning Competence to Low Status Students
130(3)
The Multiple Ability Classroom
133(2)
Evaluating Your Engineering
135(12)
Tools for Evaluation
137(8)
Improving the Groupwork
145(2)
Groupwork in the Bilingual Classroom
147(16)
Oral Proficiency
149(4)
Grade-Level Curriculum in Heterogeneous Settings
153(1)
Finding Out
154(7)
Conclusion
161(2)
Appendix A: Cooperative Training Exercises 163(20)
Appendix B: Tools for Groupwork Evaluation 183(6)
References 189(8)
Index 197

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