Cooperative Learning and Global Education

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Combining Cooperative Learning and
Global Education

This Session is sponsored by the TESOLers for Social Resonsibility

Caucus of TESOL

Moderator: George Jacobs, Singapore

Target Audience
Teachers at all levels who are interested in the two main components of the course – cooperative learning and global education – will be able to benefit and to help peers benefit from the course.

Content Description
Cooperative learning fits well with current views of second language pedagogy because it encourages students to interact to better understand input, to create comprehensible output, to promote a classroom atmosphere in which risk-taking is safe, and to care about the success of peers. Global education is coming to the fore because in our increasingly interdependent world, many language teachers believe that a consideration of global issues, such as peace, development, environment, and human rights, offers appropriate and motivating content for class activities. Interdependence is a theme that unites cooperative learning and global education, as the ability and the inclination to work together, in classrooms and beyond, may be key to learning and to making our world an even better place.

Week by Week Outline

Week I - Introductions & Basics of Cooperative Learning
How to use Yahoo Groups, who the workshop members are; what Cooperative Learning (CL) is.

Week II - Basics of Global Education (GE)
What topic areas can it encompass? Should language teachers be involved in GE, or is GE outside our domain? How can language teachers find the information needed to include GE in their lessons? Problems that arise.

Week III - Techniques for Teaching via Cooperative Learning and via Global Education?
What well-known language teaching methods fit with CL? What are examples of GE language lessons? How can more such lessons be found? What about assessment?

Week IV - Combining Cooperative Learning and Global Education
How do CL and GE intersect? How can each complement the other? What are
examples of language lessons that combine CL and GE? How can more such
lessons be found or created?

Week V - Teaching Collaborative Skills and Thinking Skills
What are collaborative skills? What are thinking skills? What is their
relation to CL and to GE?

Week VI - Project Work
How can CL principles inform the conduct of project work? How can we
integrate the classroom and the world beyond? Applications by workshop
members.

Communication Media
Discussion postings, polls, links, instant messaging, chat, and any other media course participants would like to introduce or propose.

George Jacobs is an education consultant working with several educational institutions out of Singapore, including the Ministry of Education,
Broward Community College, and the International Association for the
Study of Cooperation in Education.

To join this group go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CLandGE
and click on

If further information is needed, contact the moderator:
George Jacobs jacobs_george@yahoo.com
or george@vegetarian-society.org

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Combining Cooperative Learning and Global Education

Combining Cooperative Learning and
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