This course invest teachers with strategies and principles which integrate creativity and flexibility in classroom instruction. These strategies promote self-directed learning and the creation of a student-centred learning environment. Teachers learn to craft their lessons to build student-capacity in 21st Century skills by seamlessly incorporating cooperative learning structures in their lessons to create daily learning experiences in self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship management and responsible decision-making.

Course participants will learn to infuse cooperative learning strategies which are teacher-friendly and easily applied in the classroom, thus allowing the teacher to structure student-to-student interaction after every ten minutes of teacher’s direct instruction. These workshops also introduce easy to apply classroom management strategies besides investing the teacher with tips to seamlessly infuse social skills.

Theories and extensive research support the conclusion that cooperative learning promotes higher level thinking and enhances the quality of reasoning, the developmental level of thinking, metacognition, quality of problem solving, creativity and social perspective-taking in the classroom.

Rationale: Using cooperative learning strategies in the teaching of English, Mathematics, Mother Tongue, Science or any other subject will be a move away from the ethos of a traditional classroom where learners are passive recipients of rote learning and frontal teaching routines.

本课程为教师提供在课堂教学中融入创造力和灵活性的策略和原则。这些策略促进了自主学习和创造以学生为中心的学习环境。教师通过在课堂上无缝地融入合作式学习结构来培养学生在 21世纪技能方面的能力，从而在自我意识、社会意识、自我管理、关系管理和负责任的决策方面创造日常学习经验。

课程参与者将学习注入合作式学习策略，这些策略对教师友好且易于在课堂上应用，从而使教师能够在教师直接指导的每十分钟后构建学生与学生之间的互动。这些研讨会还介绍了易于应用的课堂管理策略，此外还向教师传授了无缝融入社交技能力的技巧。

理论和广泛的研究支持这样的结论，即合作学习可以促进更高层次的思维，提高推理质量、思维发展水平、元认知、解决问题的质量、创造力和课堂上的社会观点。

基本原理：在英语、数学、母语、科学或任何其他学科的教学中使用合作学习策略，将摆脱传统课堂的精神，在传统课堂中，学习者是死记硬背和正面教学程序的被动接受者。