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Monday, July 11 • 2:30pm - 3:50pm
How to Make Cooperative Learning Effective

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It is an undeniable reality that learning how to work collaboratively is a requisite skill for success in school and beyond.  All too often, however, cooperative activities in classrooms lack the ingredients needed to ensure that all students are engaged and learn how to collaborate well.  Brewster Academy has been successfully implementing consistent, school-wide strategies for cooperative learning for over 20 years.  See how these methods, when used in conjunction with video augmentation software, can enable secondary school students with a range of academic abilities to learn more through collaboration.

ATTENDEES ARE ASKED TO PLEASE BRING A WIFI ENABLED DEVICE AND HEADPHONES AS WATCHING VIDEOS WILL BE PART OF THIS SESSION.  THANK YOU! 


Speakers
avatar for Peter Hess

Peter Hess

Dean of Studies, Brewster Academy
With over 30 years working in the field of education, I have spent the most recent 28 at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire where I now serve as Dean of Studies. My time at Brewster has provided the opportunity to play an integral role in the implementation of a comprehensive... Read More →
avatar for Michael Jacobs

Michael Jacobs

History Department Chair, Brewster Academy
History Department Chair - Brewster Academy (Wolfboro, NH) Michael Jacobs is an Economics teacher, and History Department Chair at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH. He has been teaching for 16 years, the last eleven of which have been at Brewster. He strives to emphasize a student-centered... Read More →



Monday July 11, 2016 2:30pm - 3:50pm CDT
UMS 103