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Neil Nathan was a high school classroom teacher for ten years. He taught
Global History, Economics, English, and Arts Appreciation at Theodore
Roosevelt High School in the Bronx and Martin Luther King, Jr. High School
in Manhattan. He was Director of MLK's successful, interdisciplinary arts
education program for two years, entitled Arts Access, which landed him on
the cover of American Teacher magazine. He was then trained by the UC Santa
Cruz New Teacher Induction Program to mentor first year teachers, which he
did for three years, in Manhattan and the South Bronx. During this time, he
was promoted to Lead Mentor, which entailed designing and facilitating
professional development for a group of 40 master teachers/mentors. He is
now a Lead Instructional Mentor, supporting and coaching school based
mentors, consulting principals, and co-designing and facilitating
professional development to support teachers in 19 secondary schools, from
Coney Island to Harlem to the South Bronx, with George Georgilakis.
Description:
The Cooperative Learning Workshop examines how to use this approach as an
effective instructional strategy for both teaching and learning.
Participants will have an opportunity to share, explore, and reflect on
successful ways of creating an effective learning environment that values
and respects all learning styles, connects to students' life experiences and
prior knowledge, and develops conflict resolution skills. The workshop will
then move into specific cooperative learning strategies such as
think-write-pair-share, cubing, jigsaws, peer editing, role playing,
literature circles, group investigation, team roles, etc. Additional support
will be given for ongoing Individual and Whole Group Assessment.
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