Co-Directors: Roger T. Johnson and David W. Johnson (photo together) What is Cooperative Learning? Cooperative Learning is a relationship in a group of students that requires positive interdependence (a sense of sink or swim together), individual accountability (each of us has to contribute and learn), interpersonal skills (communication, trust, leadership, decision making, and conflict resolution), face-to-face promotive interaction, and processing (reflecting on how well the team is functioning and how to function even better). What does the Cooperative Learning Center do? The Cooperative Learning Center is a Research and Training Center focusing on how students should interact with each other as they learn and the skills needed to interact effectively. More.... Essays on developments pioneered by the Cooperative Learning Center An Overview of Cooperative Learning Cooperative Learning Methods: A Meta-Analysis Teaching Students To Be Peacemakers: Results Of Twelve Years Of Research Civil Political Discourse In A Democracy: The Contribution Of Psychology Cooperative learning Formal cooperative learning, informal cooperative learning, and cooperative base groups. The cooperative school Cooperative teaching teams, school-based decision-making, cooperative faculty meeting. Controversy Academic controversy to increase quality of learning and decision controversy to increase quality of decision making. Decision controversy Conflict resolution Peacemaking Problem-solving negotiations, peer mediation. Cooperative learning and assessment Social Interdependence Theory Teaching Students to be Peacemakers Cooperative Learning in the Culturally Diverse Classrooms Promoting Safe Educational and Community Environments New Developments in Social Interdependence Theory (6.7M PDF) Information about the purposes of the Cooperative Learning Center Theory and research Center staff develop and refine theory and (a) cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts and (b) conflict resolution. Staff are engaged in programmatic, long-term research to validate the theories. Practical procedures Center staff use the validated theory to develop practical procedures to be used in classrooms, schools, and other settings. The practical procedures include cooperative learning, school based decision making, academic controversy, decision-making controversy, conflict resolution, and peer mediation. Implementation and network Center staff developed and maintains a national and international network of educational and training institutions that are using cooperative learning, the cooperative school, controversy, and peacemaking procedures on a long-term basis. Training Center staff develop and refine training programs at the University of Minnesota, in school districts and colleges, and in summer institutes. Materials Center staff have written numerous books, research articles, book chapters, and training manuals to provide help and assistance in implementing the procedures developed by Center staff. Cooperative Learning Center Newsletters Newsletter for 2008 Newsletter for 2007 Newsletter for 2006 (HTML) (MS Word .doc) Newsletter for 2005 (HTML) (MS Word .doc) Newsletter for 2003 Newsletter for 2002 Newsletter for 2001 Newsletter for 2000 Newsletter for 1999 Newsletter for 1997 Newsletter for 1996

What's New Here April 9, 2008 The new Cooperative Learning newsletter is available February 19, 2008 Information about summer institutes at Isothermal Community College has been added to the schedule. January 3, 2008 Details for the 2008 summer institutes are now available. . Older news.... Navigation Home Cooperative Learning Q&A Essays (on home page) About the center (on home page) Newsletters (on home page) Books and supplies Contacting us (by email and otherwise) The U of M College of Education and Human Development The University of Minnesota Etc. Except as noted, the contents of this site are copyright © David and Roger Johnson. About reproduction.