Groupwork in diverse classrooms : a casebook for educators / editors, Judith H. Shulman, Rachel A. Lotan, Jennifer A. Whitcomb ; foreword, Linda Darling-Hammond ; case writers, Chris Alger ... [et al.]

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Subjects: Group work in education--United States--Case studies
Children with social disabilities--Education--United States--Case studies
Case method
Formats: Print
Material Type: Books
Language: English
Audience: Unspecified
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, c1998
LC Classification: L, LB
Table of Contents: Foreword / Linda Darling-Hammond
Preface
Table 1: Overview of Issues Across Cases
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Groupwork in Diverse Classrooms 1
Ch. 1. Conceptions of Teaching and Learning 11
Case 1. When Do You Intervene? 13
Case 2. Groupwork? Rats! 17
Case 3. Poor Period 31 21
Case 4. Do You Let Kids Fail? 25
Case 5. Exploring Alternative Assessment 31
Ch. 2. Facilitating Groupwork Interactions 37
Case 6. Struggles With the Dynamics of Grouping 39
Case 7. Puzzles of a Well-Crafted Group 45
Case 8. My Struggle With Sharon 49
Case 9. To Be, or "Not" 53
Case 10. Confronting One Group's Inertia 57
Case 11. Silences: The Case of the Invisible Boy 61
Case 12. Learning to Listen to Robert 65
Case 13. The Chance I Had Been Waiting For 69
Case 14. An Extra Audience of Critics: Handling a Parent's Response 73
Case 15. Walking the Talk: Cooperative Learning for Teachers 77
Ch. 3. One Teacher's Odyssey 81
Case 16. We're All in This Together 83
Annotated Bibliography on Groupwork 91
Appendix: Guidelines for Writing Cases 101
About the Editors 105
Additional Authors: Shulman, Judith
Lotan, Rachel A
Whitcomb, Jennifer A
Notes: LCCN: 97033507
ISBN: 0807737011 (alk. paper)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-99)
Physical Description: xiii, 105 p. ; 22 x 28 cm
OCLC Number: 37432829
ISBN/ISSN: 0807737011

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