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Foreword: The Importance of Students' Voices | |
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List of Tables | |
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List of Figures | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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About the Authors | |
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Introduction | |
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Letter to the Reader | |
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Why Collaborate with Students? | |
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Student Collaboration Facilitates 21st Century Goals of Education | |
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Student Collaboration is Democratic Schooling | |
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Student Collaboration Increases Self-Determination | |
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Student Collaboration Increases Academic and Social Competence | |
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Student Collaboration Facilitates Other School Reform Efforts | |
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Student Collaboration is an Untapped Resource in Times of Limited Fiscal and Human Resources | |
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Summary | |
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Teaching With Students | |
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Definition of Teaching | |
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What is the Instructional Cycle? | |
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What is the Research Base for Teaching with Students? | |
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Students as Co-Teachers in Cooperative Learning Groups | |
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What is Cooperative Learning? | |
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What Cooperative Groups Are NOT | |
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Five Essential Ingredients of Cooperative Group Learning: PIGS Face | |
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The Four Phases of Planning and Implementing Formal Cooperative Group Lessons | |
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Teacher Decisions at Each Phase of Planning and Implementation | |
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An Example of a Formal Cooperative Group Lesson | |
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What Do Students Say About Cooperative Group Learning | |
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Summary | |
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Students as Peer Tutors and Partner Learners | |
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Meet Some Peer Tutors | |
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What is Peer Tutoring/Partner Learning? | |
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Essential Ingredients of Peer Tutoring and Partner Learning | |
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Getting Started with Peer Tutoring and Partner Learning | |
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An Example of a Peer Tutoring/Partner Learning Lesson | |
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Students' Views of Peer Tutoring and Partner Learning | |
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Summary | |
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Students as Co-Teachers | |
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What is a Co-Teacher? What are Examples of Adults Co-Teaching with Students? | |
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Co-Teaching Approaches | |
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Challenges Faced by Student Co-Teachers | |
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What Are Student Co-Teachers, Adult Co-Teachers, Administrators, and Learners in Co-Taught Classes Saying About Co-Teaching? | |
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Summary | |
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Decision-Making With Students | |
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Empowering Students as Collaborative Creative Thinkers | |
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Barriers to Creative Thinking and Action | |
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Awareness Plans for Busting Barriers and Imagining Improvements | |
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Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) Process | |
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Thinking for Collaborative Solution Finding-Focusing Upon What You Can Do | |
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Summary | |
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Students as Instructional Decision Makers | |
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Collaborating with Students to Determine the Product of Learning | |
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Collaborating with Students to Differentiate Instruction for Struggling Learners | |
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Summary | |
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Students as Designers of Their Own Learning | |
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Defining and Nurturing Self-Determination | |
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Making Action Plans (MAPs) as a Tool to Actualize Self-Determination | |
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Student-Led Individualized Education Programs | |
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Personal Learning Plans as a Tool to Teach Self-Determination | |
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What Do Students Say About Self-Determination? | |
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Summary | |
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Students as Mediators of Conflict and Controversy | |
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Examples of Everyday School Conflicts | |
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Understanding Conflict | |
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An Example of a Class-Wide or School-Wide Peer Mediation Program | |
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A Lesson Plan Example: Learning Friendly Disagreeing Skills | |
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Summary | |
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Students as Collaborators in Responsibility | |
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A "Circle of Courage" Definition of Responsibility | |
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The Self-Discipline Pyramid | |
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Summary | |
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Epilogue: Beyond Benevolence to Befriending | |
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Glossary | |
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Resources | |
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Cooperative Group Learning Lesson Plan | |
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Peer Tutor Lesson Plan | |
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Co-Teaching Lesson Plan | |
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Syllabus for High School Course for Teaching Students to Be Co-Teachers | |
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Template for Product-Activity Matrix Integrating Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory | |
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Template for Facts about the Learner, Classroom Demands, Mismatches, and Potential Solutions | |
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Student Collaboration Quiz (for students) | |
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References | |
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Index | |