Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning
Providing for All Learners in General Education Classrooms, Set

ALL Students Grades K-6 including

• Learners with Disabilities
• Second Language Learners
• Diverse Learners

Across our nation, teachers are faced with a greater number of instructional challenges than ever before. Higher academic standards, new assessments, and the increasing number of diverse learners in our classrooms have resulted in the need to significantly adapt instruction. The movement toward heterogeneous grouping and the inclusion of students with disabilities has only served to contribute to these new challenges. Therefore, a greater emphasis is being placed on how content is modified and delivered.

Dr. Spencer and Laurie Kagan, world-renowned authorities on Cooperative Learning, offer a comprehensive system for using cooperative learning strategies to address adaptation and modification of classroom instruction across curriculum. These videos and accompanying teacher guides provide a range of proven methods for differentiating instruction through Cooperative Learning for diverse learners in each of four major content areas: English/Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science.

As an integrated approach to teaching, cooperative learning structures integrate the effective educational practices of cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, brain-compatible learning, second language learning, and inclusion. And it integrates essential life skills-thinking skills, communication skills, social skills-in the process of acquiring content knowledge and reaching the standards.

Flexible groupings within classrooms and the skilled use of Cooperative Learning play an important role in meeting the needs of all students, as well as addressing their multiple intelligences. The application of specific Cooperative Learning structures to each major content area provides teachers with invaluable strategies that assist them in dealing with the many differences they face in students' ability levels, motivation, prior knowledge, and educational background.

Observe first-hand how schools are recognizing that the skilled use of Cooperative Learning is the key to addressing many challenges presented by a diverse student population.

Every staff developer and school administrator need this series of videos and accompanying guides to help their elementary teachers improve students' success in learning, as well as address variables such as time constraints, level of difficulty, and mode of response.

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These four videos examine how Cooperative Learning strategies are successfully implemented to assist diverse learners in developing competence in the four major content areas. Each video and accompanying teacher's guide focuses on effective strategies for achieving the standards specific to that curricular area such as:

Tape 1: ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS

• Skills in strategies of the writing process
• Skills in strategies of the reading process
• The speaking and listening process as tools for learning
• Strategies to motivate students into, through and beyond literature

Tape 2: MATHEMATICS

• Using multiple strategies in problem solving
• Applying properties of numeric concepts
• Performing processes of computation
• Applying properties of measurement
• Applying concepts of statistics and probability

Tape 3: SOCIAL STUDIES

• Understanding the historical perspective
• Understanding of civic life, government and politics
• Understanding government and its relationship to American society
• Understanding family life and generational concepts

Tape 4: SCIENCE

• Understanding the basic aspects of earth and space
• Understanding genetics, interdependence and energy
• Understanding basic concepts of physical sciences, including motion
• Practicing and internalizing the scientific inquiry process

Teacher's Guides

These guides will provide support materials and sample lessons/exercises that relate to each video/ subject area.

The viewer will: 

• Learn how to address curricular and instructional adaptations and modifications through the use of cooperative learning strategies
• Recognize the benefit of a well planned, integrated approach to the learning process of acquiring content knowledge and reaching higher standards
• Recognize the value of cooperative learning in meeting the diverse needs of all learners, including students with special needs and Second Language Learners
• Observe experienced teachers implementing cooperative learning strategies within actual classrooms
• Use the accompanying manuals to expand and enhance information gained from the videos
• Identify other instructional practices that can be included in an integrated approach to instruction, such as multiple intelligences and brain-based learning

Ordering Information

Individual Content area tape and teacher's guide:

Additional teacher's guides available with purchase of any of the above:

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