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THE TEACHER UNDERSTANDS AND/OR USES THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND/OR PRACTICES: |
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Principle
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Content Knowledge; Tools of Inquiry
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Intellectual, Social, & Personal Develop.
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Adaptation to
Diverse Learners
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Instruct’l Strategies: Critical Thinking, Prob. Solv. Skills
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Active Indiv/Grp. Engagem. In Learning Commun.
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Verbal, Non-verbal, & Media Communic.
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Planning: Knowledge of Content, Students & Curr. Goals
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Formal
and Informal Assessment
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Reflective Practitioner/
Seeks Prof. Growth
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Fosters Relationsh. w/Colleag. & Commun.
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CHAPTER I: CONCEPTIONS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
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Urban
5th & 6th Grade
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Case 1: When Do You Intervene? - A fifth grade teacher finds it difficult to intervene constructively during jigsaw presentations by students. |
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Urban 2nd Grade
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Case 2: Groupwork? Rats! - While trying to expand her students’ concept of learning, an elementary teacher is surprised to discover that her students think they learn more from traditional reading and question-and-answer tasks than from hands-on activities. |
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Urban
8th
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Case 3: Poor Period Three! - An eighth grade social studies teacher explores whether groupwork is appropriate for a class that both is difficult to manage and has a disproportionate number of emotionally needy students. |
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R.S.P. & Bil-Ed.
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Urban High School
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Case 4: Do You Let Kids Fail? - A high school chemistry teacher encounters problems when one group refuses to work productively and fails to develop its final presentation. |
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Urban High School
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Case 5: Exploring Alternative Assessment. - After discovering that her students did no better on the traditional test than previous classes had, this teacher explores alternative modes of assessment that more closely link the assessment to her nontraditional instruction. |
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CHAPTER II: FACILITATING GROUPWORK INTERACTIONS
A: Individuals and Groups
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Urban 2nd Grade
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Case 6: Struggles with the Dynamics of Grouping - A second grade teacher shares her dilemmas and celebrations as she tries to create supportive groups for a student learning English. |
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E.L.L. & Spec. Ed.
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Middle/ Upper-Mi.
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Case 7: Puzzles of a Well-Crafted Group - Despite careful efforts to craft a supportive group for an unusual student, a high school English teacher encounters several surprises. |
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| CONTEXT |
THE TEACHER UNDERSTANDS AND/OR USES THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND/OR PRACTICES: |
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Urban Middle School
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Case 8: My Struggle With Sharon - An eighth grade language arts teacher questions how she handled a difficult student who tried to sabotage her small group’s activities. |
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R.S.P./ L.E.P.
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Middle Class M.S.
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Case 9: To Do, or "Not" - Two students who do not get along well find themselves in the same group and cause problems for other group members and this eighth grade science teacher. |
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Urban High School
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Case 10: Confronting One Group’s Inertia - A high school English teacher is confronted with a dysfunctional group that fails to make a final presentation; she wonders how this experience might affect the boys involved and what the class could learn from it. |
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B. Low Status Students
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Urban 8th
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Case 11: Silences: The Case of the Invisible Boy - A middle school teacher uses new groupwork techniques to help a low-achieving boy, but finds it much more complicated than she had anticipated. |
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Urban Middle School
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Case 12: Learning to Listen to Robert - A fifth grade teacher explores her belief that low-status children can drive classroom conversations in new and exciting ways. |
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3rd Grade Bilingual-Education
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Case 13: The Chance I Had Been Waiting For - Surprised when cooperative learning does not help one newly arrived immigrant student, this bilingual teacher struggles to find an opportunity to identify his strengths and show his peers that he is competent. |
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C. Interactions With Parents and Colleagues
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Suburban High School
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Case 14: The Extra Audience of Critics: Handling a Parent’s Response - An intern high school teacher is intimidated when a parent disapproves of a cooperative learning assignment that encourages the development of multiple intellectual abilities. |
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Teacher In-Service Training
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Case 15: Walking the Talk: Cooperative Learning for Teachers - An intern teacher, knowledgeable about effective groupwork strategies, is frustrated at an in-service seminar when members of his group have difficulty working together. |
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| CONTEXT |
THE TEACHER UNDERSTANDS AND/OR USES THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND/OR PRACTICES: |
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CHAPTER III: ONE TEACHER’S ODYSSEY
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Urban
7th Grade
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Case 16: We’re All In This Together - A middle school core (language arts and social studies) teacher portrays her year-long struggle to incorporate the groupwork strategies she learned the previous summer. |
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