GROUPWORK IN DIVERSE CLASSROOMS:
A Casebook for Educators
(with companion facilitator’s guide)
edited by Judith H. Shulman, Rachel A. Lotan & Jennifer Whitcomb: Teachers College Press, 1998
While groupwork in heterogeneous classrooms is recommended in most current reforms in teaching, questions and dilemmas about its implementation still persist. In this volume, 16 teachers describe their experiences with groupwork in vivid detail, focusing on both their successes and failures. The teachers address such crucial issues as: designing appropriate group tasks, assessing group activities, deciding when and how to intervene, crafting groups that support learning for all students, dealing with uncooperative students, and communicating with parents. The companion Facilitator’s Guide provides teaching notes for each case and information needed to use the cases in structured professional development experiences.
"This interesting and provocative volume could not arrive at a better time...Teachers and teacher educators will find Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms helpful for considering issues of theory in practice...The Facilitator’s Guide is an added gift."–Linda Darling-Hammond, Teachers College, Columbia University
"Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms contains straight talk from teachers about problems and benefits as well as the personal costs of introducing cooperative learning. Following an excellent overview of groupwork by the editors are brief, beautifully crafted cases written by teachers using groupwork in their classrooms. Working with the companion Facilitator’s Guide, teacher educators and staff developers have a powerful tool for making groupwork more effective in classrooms through case discussions."–Elizabeth G. Cohen, Stanford University
Sample Case:
Case 5: Exploring Alternative Assessment
Facilitator's discussion pages for Case 5
Groupwork In Diverse Classrooms, $19.95
Facilitator’s Guide, $ 14.95
Set of books, $28.00
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