team learning approach in education

Provides strategies for effective group work in the classroom, discussing how to create interdependence and positive interactions, design challenging and engaging tasks, ensure accountability, foster interpersonal skills, assess learning, and other related topics; and includes examples.

A practical guide containing approximately 200 classroom structures to assist students in peer interaction where they can collaborate with each other in various subject areas.

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

Presents a conceptual framework for transforming schools into professional learning communities in which attempts at school improvement are judged on the basis of how student learning is affected, offering suggestions on time management, and including case studies, and a question and answer section.