Professional Development for Cooperative Learning

Celeste M. Brody is Associate Professor at Lewis and Clark College. She is coeditor, with James Wallace, of Ethical and Social Issues in Professional Education, also published by SUNY Press. Neil Davidson is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the coauthor and editor of several books, including Cooperative Learning in Mathematics: A Handbook for Teachers.

• Part I: Begin with the Teacher: Focusing Professional Development for Cooperative Learning Introduction: Professional Development and Cooperative LearningCeleste Brody and Neil Davidson 1. The Significance of Teacher Beliefs for Professional Development and Cooperative LearningCeleste Brody 2. Creating Sustained Professional Growth through Collaborative ReflectionCarole Cooper and Julie Boyd 3. The Role of Staff Developers in Promoting Effective Teacher Decision-MakingCarol Rolheiser and Laurie Stevahn 4. Staff Development That Makes a DifferencePatricia Roy Part II: Lessons from the Field: Approaches to Cooperative Learning and Implications for Professional Development 5. Staff Development and the Structural Approach to Cooperative LearningSpencer Kagan and Miguel Kagan 6. Beyond the Workshop: Evidence from Complex InstructionRachel Lotan, Elizabeth Cohen, and Christopher Morphew 7. A Social Constructivist Approach to Cooperative Learning and Staff Development: Ideas from the Child Development ProjectMarilyn Watson, Sylvia Kendzior, Stefan Dasho, Stanley Rutherford, and Daniel Solomon 8. Preparing Teachers and Students for Cooperative Work: Building Communication and Helping SkillsSydney Farivar and Noreen Webb 9. The Cognitive Approach to Cooperative Learning: Mediating the Challenge to ChangeJames Bellanca and Robin Fogarty 10. Professional Development for Socially-Conscious Cooperative LearningNancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin Part III: The Learning Community: Cooperative Learning and Organizational Change 11. Effective Staff Development in Cooperative Learning: Training, Transfer, and Long-term UseDavid Johnson and Roger Johnson 12. Mutually-Sustaining Relationships between Organization Development and Cooperative LearningRichard Schmuck 13. Faculty Development Using Cooperative LearningSusan Ellis 14. Developing a Collaborative Environment through Job-Embedded Staff Development: One District's JourneyLinda Munger Part IV: Return to the Vision of Community 15. Cooperative Learning Communities: Expanding from Classroom Cocoon to Global ConnectionsLiana Forest 16. Afterword: Promising Practices and Responsible DirectionsCeleste Brody and Neil Davidson Notes on the Contributors Index

"This book contains well-researched and complete models for the kind of staff development needed today. They represent a variety of perspectives that are all applicable to the educational trends we foresee for the twenty-first century." — Judith W. Irwin, University of Connecticut"The contributors represent a very impressive cross section of the cooperative/collaborative learning community. You do get the sense that these folks are talking from experience in describing what works in staff development." — James L. Cooper, California State University at Dominguez Hills