166Tuesday, March 30, 2004

1:30 PM-3:00 PMConvention Center:208
Research Consortium
Pedagogy Symposium—Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn: Examining the What, How, and Why of Peer-Assisted Learning in Physical Education
Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) has been recommended as a strategy to promote inclusion, equity, social skill development, cognitive learning and psychomotor learning (Barrett, 2000; Cohen, 1994; Dyson 2001; Siedentop & Tannehill, 2000). PAL occurs in small groups and in dyads, typically seen in forms such as tutoring and cooperative learning. As an instructional strategy, cooperative learning has a long, rich history in the general classroom and has recently been given serious attention in physical education. Whether the objective is to use cooperative learning as an instructional strategy to increase motoric skills of students, or to improve the development of social skills within (e.g., sense of self) and among (e.g., respect for others) students in the gymnasium, a number of strategies taken from the general classroom are demonstrating their effects in physical education. Moreover, within the framework of National Standards in Physical Education, cooperative learning may be an effective instructional strategy to achieve goals. In this presentation, PAL and cooperative learning will be discussed from a theoretical, methodological, strategic, and structural approach. As a socially constructed practice, issues of inclusion in the elementary physical education classroom will also be presented.
Keyword(s): professional development, research, youth-at-risk
Presider: Tim Barrett, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Speakers:
Strategies of Cooperative Learning in Physical Education: What Works
Tim Barrett, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Cooperative Learning Structures Related to Physical Education
Benedict P. Dyson, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Cooperative Learning as a Socially Constructed Practice in the Inclusive Elementary Physical Education Classroom
Michelle A. Grenier, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
A Review of Literature on Peer-Assisted Learning in Physical Education
Myung-Ah Lee, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Peer-Assisted Learning: A Report on Essential Elements for Successful Outcomes
Phillip Ward, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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