Download or read book Social Studies and Art Integration Through Cooperative Learning Groups written by Stacy Wenzel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current classrooms are on the verge of change with the pedagogical shifts demanded by the common core state standards. The use of integration and seamless teaching throughout multiple content is becoming increasingly more apparent within the classroom. This study looks at the use of integration of the arts and Social Studies through the use of cooperative learning groups which help students achieve cognitive engagement and a deeper understanding of content. The researcher observed a third grade teacher deliver a lesson to a group of third grade students. After the lesson the students were to work as individuals or within a cooperative learning group. The researcher then interviewed the students about their experience either working independently or with their peers in a cooperative learning group. The data suggested that the use of cooperative learning groups has a positive effect on student learning and mastery of specific learning targets.
Download or read book Social Studies and Art Integration Through Cooperative Learning Groups written by Jessica Miyun Lee and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional classroom is seeing a slow transformation as integration of subjects across curriculum is paving the way for a balanced education for students. However, high stakes testing and content standards can funnel down learning for students into a narrow one-size-fits-all method of learning. This study looks at the meaning of achievement and the various methods in reaching the objective of a lesson plan. Both cognitive and non-cognitive engagement serve as indicators of a student's achievement and understanding of the curriculum. Cooperative learning groups are fast becoming a tool used in enhancing the engagement of students while allowing them to work collaboratively rather than independently.
Download or read book A Mixed Method Investigation written by Lakita Costner and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperative learning groups are quickly becoming a tool used to enhance the community of student learning. While cooperative learning has gained momentum in mainstream classroom settings, research on the impact of cooperative learning in the art classroom is minimal. The current literature on cooperative learning asserts its importance for students in all areas of learning, as it supports the development of a student's critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills. This study examined cooperative art education as part of the curriculum design for art education in high school classrooms. A mixed-methods was used to obtain the perspectives of 12th grade students actively engaging in cooperative art activities to determine 1) how they perceive cooperative learning in the visual arts classroom; 2) their learning preferences in cooperative learning environments; and 3) the benefits of the cooperative learning environment when compared to a traditional learning environment.A survey and two focus groups were conducted over a two-month period with 25 high school art students to obtain data related to their cooperative art experiences. Findings indicate students' attitudes towards their cooperative learning experiences as mostly positive, highlighting the cooperative classroom as a safe space for constructive feedback, learning new skills, and inspiration for art ideas. To a lesser extent, these high school students also mentioned some of the challenges of the cooperative classroom, which included cooperative learning activities as a distraction, an opportunity for freeloaders, and non-conducive to project time constraints. There were no major differences in perceptions among these students with regard to race, gender, or age. Overall, these outcomes contribute to the existing scholarly research on cooperative learning in the 21st century secondary classroom as well as the visual arts classroom, to enhance art education curriculum in the future. Key terms: art integration; social studies; engagement; cooperative learning; collaboration; visual arts; secondary art education
Download or read book Cooperative Problem Solving Activities for Social Studies Grades 6 12 written by Michael Hickman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give your students the opportunity to think, discover, and learn together in social studies! Teamwork helps students strengthen individual retention, improve performance, and promote meaning-making in the classroom. To give adolescent minds practice in critical thinking, the authors use their considerable teaching experience to present more than 40 problem-solving activities that are ready for immediate use in the social studies classroom. This updated edition of Catch Them Thinking in Social Studies demonstrates how to use collaborative learning strategies to fully engage students in meaning-making. Cooperative Problem-Solving Activities for Social Studies, Grades 6–12 offers lessons in five areas of social studies instruction: geography, politics, economics, culture, and history. Each activity includes background information, clue cards, objectives, tasks, and worksheets. This updated edition helps teachers: • Develop students' decision-making, analysis, and communication skills • Foster teamwork and interdependent learning • Construct cooperative problem-solving activities using their own curriculum Through the activities in this book, students will work together to learn about social topics while developing important, real-world skills. Featuring current research and new activities, this hands-on resource helps teachers facilitate cooperative problem solving in social studies and provides teacher tips throughout the book.
Download or read book Cooperative Learning Activities for Social Studies written by Grace Jasmine and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artful Teaching written by David M. Donahue and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a practitioner’s guide and a school reform model, the new edition of this popular book shares exemplary arts-integration practices across the K–8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, each chapter carefully describes how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn to assist teachers in developing their own philosophy and practice. This updated second edition features scholarship and art at the forefront of contemporary practice and addresses social justice issues such as racial, climate, and economic justice. Chapter authors provide concrete ideas along with lively examples of public-school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter that includes English, social studies, science, and mathematics. The bookÕs narrative approach makes arts integration accessible and understandable to novice and experts alike. Readers of this new edition will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts every day, in every school, to reach every child. Book Features: Explains how arts integration across the K–8 curriculum contributes to student learning.Features examples of how integrated arts education functions in classrooms when it is done well. Introduces historical and contemporary artists whose work is transdisciplinary. Brings together and speaks to diverse stakeholders, including classroom teachers, teaching artists, school administrators, and teacher educators. Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions. “A thorough guide to integrating art into other disciplinary subjects . . . recommended.” —SchoolArts (for first edition)
Download or read book Cooperative Learning Activities for Social Studies written by Grace Jasmine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Studies Strategies for Active Learning written by Andi Stix and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make history in your classroom with an engaging, integrated approach to active social studies learning. You'll motivate your students with powerful strategies for brainstorming, language arts integration, discussion, primary sources, and deductive reasoning. The included Teacher Resource CD features modifiable students pages, and assessment materials. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 304pp.
Download or read book Master the Art of Cooperative Learning written by Roy P K and published by EDUCATOR THOUGHTS. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you seeking ways to make your classroom more engaging, interactive, and interesting? Do you want to delve into the intricacies of cooperative learning and its transformative impact on education? Look no further-this book is your ultimate guide to mastering the art of cooperative learning. Master the Art of Cooperative Learning is meticulously designed as a comprehensive resource, offering educators a clear blueprint for implementing cooperative learning strategies. This guide will aid you in fostering young learners' comprehension, tackling complex concepts, honing communication skills, nurturing collaboration, and ultimately achieving remarkable academic success. Unveiling Proven Strategies Inside this book, you will discover a treasure trove of proven Kagan Structures such as Think Pair Share, Numbered Heads Together, Jigsaw, and Three-Step Interview. These strategies are seamlessly integrated into lesson plans to enhance comprehension and engagement. Each structure is explained in detail, providing you with practical tools to transform your teaching methodology. For instance, in the realm of Mathematics, cooperative learning can demystify complex concepts, making them more accessible and enjoyable through peer interaction and collaborative problem-solving. In English education, cooperative learning strategies like literature circles and role-playing activities can significantly enhance language acquisition and critical thinking. In Science education, cooperative learning promotes active engagement, teamwork, and a deeper understanding of scientific concepts. Through hands-on experiments and group discussions, students learn to collaborate effectively, develop critical thinking skills, and cultivate a genuine interest in scientific inquiry. Similarly, in Social Sciences, cooperative learning fosters empathy, critical thinking, and intellectual inquiry. Structured activities and diverse group interactions encourage students to explore different perspectives, develop social skills, and engage in meaningful discussions about historical and contemporary issues. Integrating Technology A dedicated chapter explores the role of technology in enhancing cooperative learning. It provides an overview of various digital tools such as Google Docs, Zoom, Padlet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Trello, Miro, Google Classroom, Kahoot, and more. Each tool is succinctly explained, showcasing how they can boost collaboration and engagement in virtual classrooms. Integrating these technologies ensures that cooperative learning stays relevant and effective in today's digital age. Overcoming Challenges The book also addresses common obstacles in cooperative learning, such as unequal participation and conflict resolution. Practical strategies are provided to tackle these challenges, ensuring effective and inclusive group work. Additionally, the book offers an array of team-building and class-building activities. A Must-Have Resource Every teacher should have this book on their shelf. It serves as an invaluable guide to cooperative learning strategies, providing you with the tools and insights needed to create an engaging and interactive classroom. Whether you are a seasoned educator or a new teacher, this book will empower you to implement cooperative learning effectively, enhancing your teaching practice and enriching your students' learning experiences. Embrace this approach, and watch your classroom become a vibrant hub of collaboration, creativity, and academic excellence.
Download or read book Cooperative Learning Geography Success written by Lynn Molyneux and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Studies for the Twenty First Century written by Jack Zevin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition weaves theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment into a comprehensive model to guide middle and secondary teachers in setting objectives; planning lessons, units, and courses; choosing classroom strategies; and constructing tests for some of the field's most popular and enduring programs. It offers practical, interesting, exciting ways to teach social studies and a multitude of instructional and professional resources for teachers. The text includes separate chapters on teaching each of the major areas of the social studies curriculum. Its reflective and integrative framework emphasizes building imagination, insight, and critical thinking into everyday classrooms; encourages problem-solving attitudes and behavior; and provokes analysis, reflection, and debate. Throughout the text, all aspects of curriculum and instruction are viewed from a tripartite perspective that divides social studies instruction into didactic (factual), reflective (analytical), and affective (judgmental) components. These three components are seen as supporting one another, building the groundwork for taking stands on issues, past and present. At the center is the author's belief that the heart and soul of social studies instruction, perhaps all teaching, lies in stimulating the production of ideas; looking at knowledge from others' viewpoints; and formulating for oneself a set of goals, values, and beliefs that can be explained and justified in open discussion. New in the Third Edition: * Summaries of recent research, particularly in history education, that have been published since the last edition; * Increased attention to social studies standards, as well as those for civics, economics, and history; * An enriched view of teaching history and social studies with a wide array of sources ranging from material objects through primary sources on to art, music, and literature; * Tightening of the text to make it shorter and more pointed, including a few provocative new ideas; * More and better-organized ideas for classroom group and individual activities and cooperative learning;* Expanded appendices on instructional resources include the rapidly growing use of websites; * New visuals that are better integrated into the text and which teachers can use in their classrooms as lessons in visual literacy; and * Continued efforts to inject a bit of humor and self-criticism into a field of education most students view as a sizeable trunk of dead and deadly facts. Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition is a primary text for secondary and middle social studies methods courses.
Download or read book Arts Integration written by Merryl Goldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and engaging, Merryl Goldberg’s popular guide to integrating the arts throughout the K-12 curriculum blends contemporary theory with classroom practice. Beyond teaching about the arts as a subject in and of itself, the text explains how teachers may integrate the arts—literary, media, visual, and performing—throughout subject area curriculum and provides a multitude of strategies and examples. Promoting ways to develop children's creativity and critical thinking while also developing communications skills and fostering collaborative opportunities, it looks at assessment and the arts, engaging English Language Learners, and using the arts to teach academic skills. This text is ideal as a primer on arts integration and a foundational support for teaching, learning, and assessment, especially within the context of multicultural and multilingual classrooms. In-depth discussions of the role of arts integration in meeting the goals of Title I programs, including academic achievement, student engagement, school climate and parental involvement, are woven throughout the text, as is the role of the arts in meeting state and federal student achievement standards. Changes in the 5th Edition: New chapter on arts as text, arts integration, and arts education and their place within the context of teaching and learning in multiple subject classrooms in multicultural and multilingual settings; Title I and arts integration (focus on student academic achievement, student engagement, school climate, and parental involvement–the 4 cornerstones of Title I); Attention to the National Core Arts Standards as well as their relationship to other standardized tests and arts integration; more (and more recent) research-based studies integrated throughout; Examples of how to plan arts integrated lessons (using backward design) along with more examples from classrooms’; Updated references, examples, and lesson plans/units; Companion Website: www.routledge.com/cw/goldberg
Download or read book The Teacher s Role in Implementing Cooperative Learning in the Classroom written by Robyn M. Gillies and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperative learning is widely endorsed as a pedagogical practice that promotes student learning. Recently, the research focus has moved to the role of teachers’ discourse during cooperative learning and its effects on the quality of group discussions and the learning achieved. However, although the benefits of cooperative learning are well documented, implementing this pedagogical practice in classrooms is a challenge that many teachers have difficulties accomplishing. Difficulties may occur because teachers often do not have a clear understanding of the basic tenets of cooperative learning and the research and theoretical perspectives that have informed this practice and how they translate into practical applications that can be used in their classrooms. In effect, what do teachers need to do to affect the benefits widely documented in research? A reluctance to embrace cooperative learning may also be due to the challenge it poses to teachers’ control of the learning process, the demands it places on classroom organisational changes, and the personal commitments teachers need to make to sustain their efforts. Moreover, a lack of understanding of the key role teachers need to play in embedding cooperative learning into the curricula to foster open communication and engagement among teachers and students, promote cooperative investigation and problem-solving, and provide students with emotionally and intellectually stimulating learning environments may be another contributing factor. The Teacher's Role in Implementing Cooperative Learning in the Classroom provides readers with a comprehensive overview of these issues with clear guidelines on how teachers can embed cooperative learning into their classroom curricula to obtain the benefits widely attributed to this pedagogical practice. It does so by using language that is appropriate for both novice and experienced educators. The volume provides: an overview of the major research and theoretical perspectives that underpin the development of cooperative learning pedagogy; outlines how specific small group experiences can promote thinking and learning; discusses the key role teachers play in promoting student discourse; and, demonstrates how interaction style among students and teachers is crucial in facilitating discussion and learning. The collection of chapters includes many practical illustrations, drawn from the contributors’ own research of how teachers can use cooperative learning pedagogy to facilitate thinking and learning among students across different educational settings.
Download or read book Cooperative Learning Social Studies Success written by Lynn Molyneux and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Cumference and the First Round Table written by Cindy Neuschwander and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Sir Cumference, Lady Di of Ameter, and their son Radius for wordplay, puns, and problem solving in this geometry-packed math adventure. King Arthur was a good ruler, but now he needs a good ruler. What would you do if the neighboring kingdom were threatening war? Naturally, you'd call your strongest and bravest knights together to come up with a solution. But when your conference table causes more problems than the threat of your enemy, you need expert help. Enter Sir Cumference, his wife Lady Di of Ameter, and their son Radius. With the help of the carpenter, Geo of Metry, this sharp-minded team designs the perfect table conducive to discussing the perfect plan for peace. The first in Sir Cumference series, Sir Cumference and the First Round Table makes math fun and accessible for everyone.
Download or read book Cooperative Learning in the Social Studies Classroom written by Robert J. Stahl and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Integration of Mastery Learning and Cooperative Learning in Social Studies written by Judith R. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: