In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won’t. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.