ECED 407 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.2: Cooperative Learning, With The Light
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Projects encourage exploration and sharing of new materials and ideas, and they allow opportunities for children to problem solve, generate ideas, reflect, estimate, hypothesize, and make predictions (grisham-brown et al. , 2005). Jones (1999) states that as knowledge increases, children begin to process and express learning through observations, drawings, and peer interactions. Communicative skills develop when the children have something meaningful to communicate about when they are taking an active role (katz, 2002). The project approach naturally and organically provides opportunities for collaborative work in many different areas and invites the exercise of many skills and dispositions (hyun, 2006). Cooperative learning offers a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which all children can sharpen their communicative skills (katz, 2002). Many new opportunities, therefore, emerge for children to work collaboratively by embracing their differences and celebrating with new voices. The project approach provides a natural context for this spirit of community.
