Professional Development for Cooperative Learning : Issues and Approaches.

CONTENTS -- PART I. BEGIN WITH THE TEACHER: FOCUSING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPOMENT FOR COOPERATIVE LEARNING -- Introduction: Professional Development and Cooperative Learning by Celeste Brody and Neil Davidson -- 1. The Significance of Teacher Beliefs for Professional Development and Cooperative Learning by Celeste Brody -- 2. Creating Sustained Professional Growth through Collaborative Reflection by Carole Cooper and Julie Boyd -- 3. The Role of Staff Developers in Promoting Effective Teacher Decision-Making by Carol Rolheiser and Laurie Stevahn -- 4. Staff Development That Makes a Difference by 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 by Spencer Kagan and Miguel Kagan -- 6. Beyond the Workshop: Evidence from Complex Instruction by Rachel Lotan, Elizabeth Cohen, Christopher Morphew -- 7. A Social Constructivist Approach to Cooperative Learning and Staff Development: Ideas from the Child Development Project by Marilyn Watson, Sylvia Kendzior, Stefan Dasho, Stanley Rutherford, and Daniel Solomon -- 8. Preparing Teachers and Students for Cooperative Work: Building Communication and Helping Skills by Sydney Farivar and Noreen Webb -- 9. The Cognitive Approach to Cooperative Learning: Mediating the Challenge to Change by James Bellanca and Robin Fogarty -- 10. Professional Development for Socially-Conscious Cooperative Learning by Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin -- PART III. THE LEARNING COMMUNITY: COOPERATAIVE LEARNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -- 11. Effective Staff Development in Cooperative Learning: Training, Transfer, and Long-Term Use by David Johnson and Roger Johnson.

12. Mutually-Sustaining Relationships between Organization Development and Cooperative Learning by Richard Schmuck -- 13. Faculty Development Using Cooperative Learning by Susan Ellis -- 14. Developing a Collaborative Environment through Job-Embedded Staff Development: One District's Journey by Linda Munger -- PART IV. RETURN TO THE VISION OF COMMUNITY -- 15. Cooperative Learning Communities: Expanding from Classroom Cocoon to Global Connections by Liana Forest -- 16. Afterword: Promising Practices and Responsible Directions by Celeste Brody and Neil Davidson -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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