Cooperative Learning

Cooperation Is the Name of The Game









The Cooperative Classroom: Kagan’s Instructional Practices
Gratz College
Rachel Witter
August 14 – 18, 2000



Submitted by:
Tucker Birkhead
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Chester Springs, PA 19425
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Cooperation Is the Name of the Game

As this new millennium begins, schools are being called upon to perform many additional duties, and an ever-increasingly-hostile public is holding them accountable. The curricula schools are supposed to teach are becoming larger, the role the school plays in a child’s life is changing and new research in the field of education suggests we should alter our traditional teaching practices.
For better or worse, our society is changing. The role of a school has transformed; it is still a place where students learn and teachers teach, but it is also beginning to resemble a foster parent. According to Spencer Kagan, children are coming to school ...