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Professional Development for Cooperative Learning
Issues And Approaches

Edited by
Celeste M. Brody and Neil Davidson

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CONTENTS
 
Part I: Begin with the Teacher: Focusing Professional Development for 
Cooperative Learning

Introduction: Professional Development and Cooperative Learning 3
Celeste Brody and Neil Davidson

1. The Significance of Teacher Beliefs for Professional Development and  25
Cooperative Learning
Celeste Brody

2. Creating Sustained Professional Growth through Collaborative Reflection 49
Carole Cooper and Julie Boyd

3. The Role of Staff Developers in Promoting Effective Teacher Decision­ 63
Making
Carol Rolheiser and Laurie Stevahn

4. Staff Development That Makes a Difference 79
Patricia Roy
 
Part II: Lessons from the Field: Approaches to Cooperative Learning 
and Implications for Professional Development

5. Staff Development and the Structural Approach to Cooperative Learning 103
Spencer Kagan and Miguel Kagan

6. Beyond the Workshop: Evidence from Complex Instruction 123
Rachel Lotan, Elizabeth Cohen, and Christopher Morphew

7. A Social Constructivist Approach to Cooperative Learning and Staff  147
Development: Ideas from the Child Development Project
Marilyn Watson, Sylvia Kendzior, Stefan Dasho, Stanley Rutherford, and 
Daniel Solomon
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8. Preparing Teachers and Students for Cooperative Work: Building  169
Communication and Helping Skills
Sydney Farivar and Noreen Webb

  

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9. The Cognitive Approach to Cooperative Learning: Mediating the Challenge to  189
Change
James Bellanca and Robin Fogarty

10. Professional Development for Socially­Conscious Cooperative Learning 203
Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon­Shevin
 
Part III: The Learning Community: Cooperative Learning and 
Organizational Change

11. Effective Staff Development in Cooperative Learning: Training, Transfer, and  223
Long­term Use
David Johnson and Roger Johnson

12. Mutually­Sustaining Relationships between Organization Development and  243
Cooperative Learning
Richard Schmuck

13. Faculty Development Using Cooperative Learning 255
Susan Ellis

14. Developing a Collaborative Environment through Job­Embedded Staff  269
Development: One District's Journey
Linda Munger
 
Part IV: Return to the Vision of Community

15. Cooperative Learning Communities: Expanding from Classroom Cocoon to  287
Global Connections
Liana Forest

16. Afterword: Promising Practices and Responsible Directions 309
Celeste Brody and Neil Davidson

Notes on the Contributors 319

Index 323

  

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