Foundation Coalition: Active/Cooperative Learning

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Transcript: Implementing Cooperative Learning "Facilitating in the Classroom"

While they're working on those activities, I walk around the classroom. I give them a little bit of a chance to get started and let the problem sink in, but at some point they then have questions. So I walk around, find out what kinds of questions they have, and that's where you can actually see them learning the material. They will ask a lot of interesting, probing questions about things. Sometimes students are on the wrong track, so it's an opportunity to point them in the right direction. But they basically have to solve the problem on their own. I am just helping them by walking around, and answering questions, and keeping them on the right track, keeping them on time-and it's important to be doing that as part of cooperative learning. If I just gave them a problem and sat there and didn't do anything, I don't feel like I'd be doing my job. Part of doing cooperative learning is being actively involved in the classroom while they're working on problems.

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