Professional development for cooperative learning : issues and approaches / edited by Celeste M. Brody and Neil Davidson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The significance of teacher beliefs for professional development and cooperative learning / Celeste Brody -- Creating sustained professional growth through collaborative reflection / Carole Cooper and Julie Boyd -- The role of staff developers in promoting effective teacher decision-making / Carol Rolheiser and Laurie Stevahn -- Staff development that makes a difference / Patricia Roy -- Staff development and the structural approach to cooperative learning / Spencer Kagan and Miguel Kagan -- Beyond the workshop: evidence from complex instruction / Rachel Lotan, Elizabeth Cohen, and Christopher Morphew -- A social constructivist approach to cooperative learning and staff development: ideas from the Child Development Project / Marilyn Watson [and others] -- Preparing teachers and students for cooperative work: building communication and helping skills / Sydney Farivar and Noreen Webb -- The cognitive approach to cooperative learning: mediating the challenge to change / James Bellanca and Robin Fogarty -- Professional development for socially-conscious cooperative learning / Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin -- Effective staff development in cooperative learning: training, transfer, and long-term use / David Johnson and Roger Johnson -- Mutually-sustaining relationships between organization development and cooperative learning / Richard Schmuck -- Faculty development using cooperative learning / Susan Ellis -- Developing a collaborative environment through job-embedded staff development: one district's journey / Linda Munger -- Cooperative learning communities: expanding from classroom cocoon to global connections / Liana Forest -- Afterword: promising practices and responsible directions / Celeste Brody and Neil Davidson.

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Annotation Contains 16 contributions exploring models and perspectives in cooperative learning. Topics include creating sustained professional growth through collaborative reflection, the role of staff developers in promoting effective teacher decision-making, a social constructivist approach with ideas from a child development project, a case study from one school district on developing a collaborative environment through job-embedded staff development, and cooperative learning communities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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