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ERIC Number: EJ394338
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Cooperative Learning: What Is It?
Voorhies, Randi
Social Studies Review, v28 n3 p7-10 Spr 1989
Lists and describes five essential components common to all cooperative learning lessons. Identifies heterogeneous grouping, introduction of social skills, interdependence of group members, individual accountability, and processing of group interaction as essential to cooperative learning. Suggest ways cooperative learning can be implemented in the social studies. (KO)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities, Heterogeneous Grouping, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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