Foundation Coalition: Active/Cooperative Learning

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Transcript: Implementing Cooperative Learning "Facilitating in the Classroom"

After we do these exercises, I don't present the solution-I have them present the solution. Usually, [I] randomly select someone in the classroom, [or] some particular group, and then, within a group, someone is responsible for presenting their solution to the class. . . . That always promotes a lot of discussion, because they don't always have the right solution. And it's not meant as a way of embarrassing anybody for not having the right solution. . . . It's part of the learning process. They present their solution, and then other students will have comments: "You could've done this a different way" or "Why didn't you do this?" So it's a way of following up the group exercises with a lot of good class discussion. They present their results, and then the rest of the class gets involved in presenting some different points of view, or different techniques, or different ways of doing the same thing.

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