For Chapter 11, it is important that you have clear understanding of the following:

• The role peers, parents, and teachers play in student learning
• Cooperative Learning
  • the difference between "group work" and collaborative/cooperative learning
  • five things that can go wrong with group learning, and suggestions on how to use cooperative learning effectively
  • how to prepare students for cooperative learning
  • tools for cooperative learning like reciprocal questioning
  • how cooperative learning can help benefit students with special needs
  • how to implement jigsaw learning in your classroom
• How conflict among students can constructively support learning
• How peer mediation and negotiation can be used to resolve conflict before it becomes a larger issue
• The different sides to "character education" and which position you support (page 431)
• Preventing violence in schools
• Specific strategies for dealing with potentially difficult situations (434)
• Warning signs that a student might become violent (p. 435)