COD 2008 - G390

Building on Cooperative Learning

Teachers and Directors of all the levels.

4 sessions, start: 06-Oct

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Moira McCallum MA, Ms. Patsy Pouiller, PGCE, Ivonne Roberts
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 06 October 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 13 October 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 20 October 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
4 27 October 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Moira McCallum MA

Patsy Pouiller, PGCE

She is an English graduate teacher from "Instituto Nacional Del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández". She has a postgraduate study from the University of Bath. She has attended Cooperative Learning workshops at "Kagan Cooperative Learning Trainer's Institute" in California, U.S.A. She has given courses in different schools and institutions transmitting the theory and practice of this educational approach. Since 1992 she has implemented Cooperative Learning in the classroom bridging the gap between theory and practice. She is currently working as a Deputy Head in a prestigious bilingual school St. Andrew's Scots School.

Ivonne Roberts

Teachers and Directors of all the levels.
The objective of this workshop is to provide teachers with another tool to facilitate teaching and learning in the classroom.
The basic principles of Cooperative Learning will be presented and teachers will be exposed to different strategies to be implemented in the classroom right away. These strategies structure student participation and foster interdependence amongst them.
The techniques help teachers deal with social problems taking place in the classroom so that students can develop the necessary skills to be able to work in teams. These strategies also foster individual and group responsibility towards common objectives, seeking equal participation of each student.

Cooperative Learning is a teaching method where students work in teams, helping each other, to reach a common objective, improving their own learning as well as the learning of the group.
This is attained by teaching and working social skills and structuring tasks in such a way that there is positive interdependence among the members of the team and individual and group responsibility.
The main advantages of Cooperative Learning:
- Increases self-esteem of students.
- Increases active participation.
- Enhances academic standards.
- Fosters integration.
- Improves class atmosphere.
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