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

Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.

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

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.

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.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.