Cooperative Learning and Multicultural Classrooms: Strategies for Engagement and Equity
The good news is that designing small-group interaction into learning has the potential to positively influence intercultural understanding, achievement, and the acquisition of linguistic skills. The bad news is that, without careful planning and implementation, the use of small-group interaction may actually replicate and reinforce the existing beliefs, behaviors, and inequities that make it difficult for students to contribute and to build understanding of academic material, themselves, and each other. Participants can expect to leave this workshop having explored basic principles, and experienced specific strategies, for designing more equitable opportunities for learning and interaction. An important characteristic of this workshop is that participants will have the opportunity to engage in cooperative interaction with peers.
Facilitator: Lynda Baloche
Lynda is Co-president of the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education and a Professor of Education at West Chester University of PA. She is the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals and the text The Cooperative Classroom: Empowering Learning. She enjoys working with faculty, teachers, and administrators who are committed to developing collaborative and equitable classroom communities.
Info: Robin Burgess, 215-881-7400
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CILC is Center for Intercultural Leadership & Communication at Penn State Abington
