Wendy Jolliffe is Head of Teacher Education at the University of Hull, UK. She has worked as a national and local adviser for teacher training and literacy, and was Deputy Head of a Primary school in Hull before moving into higher education. Her teaching and research interests have focused on the implementation of cooperative learning, which is the subject of her PhD. She has run professional development courses in this country and overseas on this subject. She is the author of Cooperative Learning in the Classroom: putting it into practice (2007), and is a member of the Board of International Association for the Study of Cooperative Education.

• Foreword Introduction – Learning to learn together: cooperation, theory and practice 1. Cooperative learning in elementary schools 2. The challenges of implementing group work in primary school classrooms and including pupils with special educational needs 3. Status problem and expectations of competence: a challenging path for teachers 4. The Storyline approach: promoting learning through cooperation in the second language classroom 5. How to integrate cooperative skills training into learning tasks: an illustration with young pupils’ writing 6. Bridging the gap: teachers cooperating together to implement cooperative learning 7. Meaningful learning in the cooperative classroom

Wendy Jolliffe is Head of Teacher Education at the University of Hull, UK. She has worked as a national and local adviser for teacher training and literacy, and was Deputy Head of a Primary school in Hull before moving into higher education. Her teaching and research interests have focused on the implementation of cooperative learning, which is the subject of her PhD. She has run professional development courses in this country and overseas on this subject. She is the author of Cooperative Learning in the Classroom: putting it into practice (2007), and is a member of the Board of International Association for the Study of Cooperative Education.

• Foreword Introduction – Learning to learn together: cooperation, theory and practice 1. Cooperative learning in elementary schools 2. The challenges of implementing group work in primary school classrooms and including pupils with special educational needs 3. Status problem and expectations of competence: a challenging path for teachers 4. The Storyline approach: promoting learning through cooperation in the second language classroom 5. How to integrate cooperative skills training into learning tasks: an illustration with young pupils’ writing 6. Bridging the gap: teachers cooperating together to implement cooperative learning 7. Meaningful learning in the cooperative classroom