Education - Just for Teachers: Different Types of Learning

Talking points : discussion activities in the primary classroom

Dawes, Lyn

LB1033.5 .D39 2012

Available at Lincoln Center, Quinn Library

According to the National Science Foundation, "Cooperative learning involves more than students working together on a lab or field project. It requires teachers to structurecooperative interdependence among the students. These structures involve five key elements which can be implemented in a variety of ways. There are also different types of cooperative groups appropriate for different situations."

The website goes on to further specify that group work must contain these five major elements:

1. Positive Interdependence
2. Individual Accountability
3. Face-to-Face Interaction
4. Interpersonal Skills
5. Group Processing

All of the texts below from the Fordham Libraries provide graduate students and teachers with further information regarding what these five elements of group work mean and how to ensure your group work assignments can better meet these criteria.

Claude Steele is a social psychologist who has conducted numerous studies and research on the issue of stereotype threat.  As a teacher, it would be of great benefit to evaluate how stereotype threat affects the students in your classroom and how teachers can lessen the effects of stereotype threat in their classrooms.

Below is a video of Steele defining stereotype threat.

Gina Stefanini provided the following lists of resources for Fordham graduate students at her presentation, Assistive Technology: Tools and Strategies for Successful Inclusion, during the Spring 2013 semester.  All of these resources are able to be used by graduate students and teachers in order to make their curriculum more accessible for all students.