Dr. Robert Slavin on Cooperative Learning

Dr. Robert Slavin, director of the Elementary School Program, Center for Research on Elementary and Middle Schools, Johns Hopkins University, in the videoconference, Managing Instruction for Equity and Excellence (1989) on the benefits of cooperative learning for disabled and minority students (306k).

"We do have evidence that learning disabled kids or mildly handicapped kids do benefit from cooperative learning when they use cooperative in..., when they experience cooperative learning in heterogeneous, mainstream classes. Cooperative learning methods are particularly successful with monardic children. One thing that's true particularly of Hispanics is that they're predisposed..., they're often predisposed, toward cooperative activity and against competing with each other and so that the cooperative learning is more in line with their cultural style than is the usual competitive structure. I think that for black students that's often the case."