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Cooperative learning in the right situations can be a wonderful tool to
allow the student from all levels to have success.  Traditional
classrooms do a very good job at teaching the best and the brightest but
I dare say that would include only 20 % of my classes.  Am I to isolate
those students and the rest be damned. I got into teaching not to make a
living but to make a difference.  Cooperative learning is helping me to
reach students that I could not reach other wise.  Does it require that I
need to plan and implement lessons differently? Does it require a
rethinking of the traditional grading system?  Does it reach students
that would not be reached in a traditional class?  All of these are yes!!!
It is more work, but the results are worth it.  CL is not the cure-all
for public education but it is a tool and a very good tool to make a
difference.


Dan Shoemaker                         615-346-6616
Wartburg Central High School          dshoemak@suncube.ccs.ortn.edu
PO Box 303
Wartburg Tn. 37887