Chapter 13: Communication Skills Structures. This chapter teaches priorities and has lesson plans to help the teacher.
Chapter 14: Social Skills Development. Shows formal and natural approachees to skill development and explains roles of cooperative classrooms.
Chapter 15: Cooperative Projects. Explains principles such as interdependence, individuality, and interaction.
Chapter 16: Scoring and Recognition. Teaches the teachers how to properly score and grade the kids' work.
Chapter 17: Mastery Designs. This chapter helps teachers in learning how to color code and organization skills in the classroom.
Chapter 18: Task Specialization Designs. This consists of how to teach students ways to work in partners.
Chapter 19: Project Designs. Shows teachers how to put together projects and visual projects for kids to better understand the topic.
Chapter 20: Co-op Lesson Planning. Teachers learn in this chapter how to design a lesson plan and creating stability within the class.
Chapter 21: Teachers Supporting Teachers. Teachers are informed in this chapter of the better ways to work together more effectively.
Chapter 22: Schoolwide Cooperation- and Beyond. This chapter consists of goals within cooperative teaching and how to get parental support.
Chapter 23: Co-op Play. This chapter is about showing kids the proper ways to share and play together. Kids dont play competitive games; they obey them.
Chapter 24: Resources. 9 categories within this chapter: theory, research, methods, curriculum specific, grade level specific, special populations, co-op books, newsletters, co-op organizations.
**This is the conclution of my book: I learned many new teaching skills in this book and it was a very good read. I have had great cadeting experiences this semester and hope to do it again next year.

Chapter 5 in Cooperative Learning consists of the structural approach, how to teach the class to learn together, and the specific packages of Cooperative classrooms.
Chapter 6 consists of teams and how to teach the children to work together as teams.
Chapter 7 is about managing cooperative classrooms, this chapter states the many different ways to improve the class.
Chapter 8 helps the teachers improve teambuilding, in this chapter, there are many ways for teachers to learn how to teach their classes how to become better working in teams.
Chapter 9: Classbuilding. In this chapter, Spencer Kagan shows teachers how to iprove their class and steps in constructing their classes.
Chapter 10: Mastery Structures. This chapter explains ways for teachers to help their students work together more effectively and better ways to work with their class.
Chapter 11: Thinking Skills Structures. This chapter is about teaching kids how to work in pairs and about brainstorming.
Chapter 12: Information Sharing Structures. This is about sharing and social skills.

Chapter 2, 3, and 4: Chapter 2 of Cooperative Learning explains the needs for cooperative learning techniques. It is needed so that students learn how to be respectful and cooperate better.Chapter 3 is about positive outcomes of cooperative learning. The positive outcomes consist of boosting the childrens self esteem, improve social skills, and creates self direction. Chaspter 4 was over the six key concepts of cooperative learning. These six key concepts are teams, cooperative management, will to change, skill to cooperate, basic principles, and structures. The most important concept to me is will to cooperate, because when working with young children, they have a mind set where if they dont want to do something, they feel the need to take their own command, so I believe that willl to cooperate is the most important, for the children have to be willing to be invovled in cooperative learning.

To finish off my great semester cadeting, I am reading Cooperative Learning by Spencer Kagan.
Chapter 1: Ten Frequent Questions.. In this chapter, I have learned that cooperative learning teaches kids how to work together and also gain skills in future communication with employees, bosses, and acquaintances while having to work together affectivly. Students who are involved in cooperative learning gain the ability to have ideas of their own, yet ideas within a group where ideas can be put together and debated upon. Students are encouraged to help eachother and treat eachother with respect and kindness. Lastly, cooperative learning teaches students to work with those whom they may not care for, but have never given the chance, but with a new outlook and the teacher's techniques the students become more open to expand their friendships and succeed in their group!

This past week, I have helped Miss Schell get grades in for the kiddos and help get them caught up. Friday, we had our Dr Suess party.. It went great! The kids, and Miss Schell and I, had a blast!

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So far in my cadeting experience, I have worked with first graders in Mrs. Schell's class. My responsibilities in her class are to review flash cards with a list of kids who need more practice and read stories out of their book boxes.