Co-operative Learning with Young Learners

This session reflects on how co-operative learning techniques can be used to enhance classroom management with young learners through:

• Positive Interdependence
• Individual Accountability
• Goal Setting
• Socialisation
• Face-to-face Interaction.

Louise will discuss the range of techniques and resources available as well as illustrate the positive impact these approaches have produced in her work with school groups in college.

Louise Wallace has worked within the Childcare and Early Years sector for 17 years, progressing from Nursery Assistant to Manager within a variety of establishments. In January 2004 she was appointed to the post of Early Years Lecturer at Forth Valley College.

The majority of her teaching is with secondary school students in the college environment and she has demonstrated a positive teaching example which has resulted in high retention, positive relationships and behaviour and successful learners.

She believes that the success of her students and the positive relationships built between lecturer and students (and between the students themselves) is the result of combining the promotion of positive interdependence, individual accountability, socialisation, goal setting and face-to-face interaction.