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BOOKS
Learning to Lead Teams: Developing Leadership Skills, 1997
David and Roger Johnson

Workbook for students to learn leadership skills so they are more productive members of cooperative learning groups and all other groups to which they belong. Through loads of exercises leadership skills are identified, diagnosed, increased, practiced, and assessed. It is priced so that each student in your class can have one.

ISBN 0-939603-27-6
$25.00


New Paradigms for College Teaching, 1st edition, 1997
Edited by Win E. Campbell and Karl A. Smith

Coversationally written book comiling a variety of teaching methodologies. Chapters include: Cooperative and Active Learning, Writing-Across-the-Curriculum, Student Management Teams, Teaching with Stories, Knowlege Maps, Information Technology and Learning Communities.

ISBN 0-939603-26-8
$25.00


Circles of Learning, 5th ed., 2002
David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Holubec

An overview of cooperative learning. The essential components of successful cooperative learning, the teacher's role, and the teaching of social skills to students are all covered. Cooperation among teachers is also discussed. An excellent introduction to cooperative learning.

ISBN 0-939603-12-8
$25.00


Cooperation and Competition: Theory and Research, 1989
David and Roger Johnson

A comprehensive review of all the research conducted on cooperative, competitive and individualistic efforts. Each chapter is a separate meta-analysis of all the available studies and the best evidence. This single volume provides a conclusive rationale for the use of cooperation in the classroom and school.

ISBN 0-939603-10-1
$35.00


Leading the Cooperative School, 1994 Revised
David and Roger Johnson

Changing the organizational structure of the school to a team-based cooperative structure requires leadership. Leaders must challenge the status quo, inspire a mutual vision, empower through teams, lead by example, and encourage the heart to persist. In a cooperative school cooperative learning dominates the classroom, colleagial support groups among teachers and administrators dominate the school and district, and a team school-based decision-making procedure is used.

ISBN 0-939603-20-9
$28.00


Learning Mathematics and Cooperative Learning: Lesson Plans for Teachers, 1991
David and Roger Johnson

Math lesson plans from veteran cooperative learning teachers around the country. Primary, intermediate, junior high and senior high school math lessons are included.

ISBN 0-939603-13-6
$26.00


Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, 2006
David and Roger Johnson and Karl Smith

A comprehensive view of the use of formal cooperative learning lessons, informal cooperative learning groups, and cooperative base groups in the college classroom. Numerous specific lesson structures are included. An excellent overview of how to use cooperative learning at the college level. The book is also useful for secondary school teachers.

ISBN 0-939603-14-4
$35.00


Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers, 9th ed., 2005
David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Holubec

A comprehensive program is presented to train all students to negotiate constructive solutions to their conflicts and mediate the conflicts of their classmates. This peer mediate program provides a structure for managing classroom and school discipline by giving student the procedures and skills they need to regulate their own behavior. Discipline problems are dramatically reduced and students are give important lifelong coping skills. Lesson plans and lesson structures are included.

ISBN 0-939603-22-5
$35.00


Our Mediation Notebook, 3rd ed., 1995
David and Roger Johnson, Judy K. Bartlett

Student Worksheets for teaching students to be peacemakers -- to learn how to negotiate and mediate.

ISBN 0-939603-24-1
$15.00


Creative Controversy: Intellectual Challenge in the Classroom, 3rd ed., 1995
David and Roger Johnson

A comprehensive treatment of how to structure intellectual/academic conflicts within cooperative learning groups. Intellectual conflicts are created to promote higher-level reasoning, critical thinking, creative problem solving, and long-term retention. Plus they are fun and energizing. Controversies may be structured in any subject area and at any grade level. Lesson plans and lesson structures are included.

ISBN 0-939603-23-3
$35.00


Structuring Cooperative Learning: Lesson Plans for Teachers, 1987
David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Holubec

Original cooperative learning lessons from teachers across North America. Lessons fro various grade levels and subject areas are included. An invaluable guide for classroom teachers beginning to implement cooperative learning.

ISBN 0-939603-00-4
$26.00


Cooperation in the Classroom, 7th edition, 1998
David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Holubec

The foundation for using cooperative learning in your classroom. The book covers the nature of cooperative learning, the essential components that make it work, the teacher's role, the structuring of positive interdependence and individual accountability, teaching students social skills, group processing, and forming teacher colleagial support groups. The basic lesson structures required to get started with cooperative learning are included. The foundational book for implementing cooperative learning.

ISBN 0-939603-04-7
$35.00


Advanced Cooperative Learning, 1998
David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Holubec

For teachers who have mastered the foundational procedures of using cooperative learning. The book presents the integrated use of formal cooperative learning, informal cooperative learning, and cooperative base groups; the integrated use of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic instructional procedures; and advanced look at components of successful cooperative learning; indepth treatment of teaching students leadership, trust, communication, and conflict skills; student diversity and valuing differences; reaching out to colleagues, and the future of cooperative learning.

ISBN 0-939603-19-5
$35.00


Our Cooperative Classroom, 1988
David and Roger Johnson, Judy Bartlett and Linda Johnson

A variety of student activities geared to primary grades. Close to 100 pages of ventures to enhance.

ISBN 0-939603-05-5
$16.00


Cooperative Learning: Warm-Ups, Grouping Strategies, and Group Activities, 1985
David and Roger Johnson

A variety of activities designed to assign students to groups, build group cohesion, and teach social skills.

ISBN 0-939603-11-X
$11.00


The Nuts & Bolts of Cooperative Learning, 1994
David and Roger Johnson and Edythe Holubec

A practical, step-by-step guide to the teacher's role in using cooperative learning. Contains easy-to-follow procedures for planning and conducting cooperative lessons. This user-friendly state-of-the-art book emphasizes mnemonics, illustrations and a thumb index. The wide variety of ideas and activities will be helpful to elementary and secondary teachers.

ISBN 0-939603-21-7
$30.00


Positive Interdependence: The Heart of Cooperative Learning, 1992
David and Roger Johnson

A series of exercises makes clear what positive interdependence is and how each type of positive interdependence is structured within a lesson. The types include goal, reward, resource, role, identity, outside enemy, task, fantasy, and environmental interdependence. A must for every teacher using cooperative learning.

ISBN 0-939603-17-9
$10.00


Learning Together and Alone, 5th ed., 1999
David and Roger Johnson

The integrated use of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic learning is emphasized. the essential components that make cooperative learning work are also covered. the theory and research rationale for cooperative learning is presented.

ISBN 0-205-28771-9
$72.00


Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills, 7th ed., 2000
David and Frank Johnson

A basic text on group dynamics that integrates theory, research, and skill-building exercises. The text is build on an experiential learning model that requires students to apply group dynamics theory and research. Communication, decision-making, leadership, power and influence, conflict, creative problem solving, and many other skills are covered. Numerous skill-building exercises.

ISBN 0-205-45373-2
$89.00


Reaching Out: Interpersonal Effectiveness and Self-Actualization, 7th edition, 2000
David Johnson

A basic text on interpersonal skills that integrates theory, research, and skill-building exercises. Experiential learning is used to ensure that students apply the theory and research on building and maintaining productive and satisfying interpersonal relationships. Trust, communication, acceptance/support, conflict, and many other skills are covered. Numerous skill-building exercises.

ISBN 0-205-46008-7
$72.00


Multicultural Education and Human Relations
David and Roger Johnson
ISBN 0-205-32769-9
$57.00

Human Relations and Your Career, 3rd edition, 1991
David Johnson

The theory and skill-building exercises necessary to develop the interpersonal skills essential for employability and career success. Numerous skill-building exercises.

ISBN 0-13-446253-X
$28.00


How to Model It: Problem Solving for the Computer Age, 1994
Tony Starfield, Karl Smith, and Andrew Bleloch

The reader is guided through the process of problem definition, solution development, strategy, model building and interpretation of modeling results. For high school and adults. Includes 3 1/2" MS-DOS disk with spreadsheet files, critical path scheduling program and an expert system shell.

ISBN 0-8087-7970-2
$32.00


Building Models for Conservation and Wildlife Management, 1991
Tony Starfield and Andrew Bleloch

Chapters describe a problem in an African game preserve, then develop a model to help understand the problems and decide what to do. Used in upper level college modelling classes, graduate classes and professional workshops for bioligists.

0-8087-7790-4
$30.00


VIDEOS, CASSETTE TAPES
Circles of Learning, 1983
David and Roger Johnson

32-minute VHS videotape presenting specific procedures for structuring cooperative lessons, teaching students social skills, and having learning groups process how effectively the are functioning. Both elementary and secondary procedures are presented.

$30.00


Belonging, 1981
David and Roger Johnson

27-minute VHS videotape presenting a case study of a junior high school handicapped student being mainstreamed into a classroom where the teacher is using cooperative learning groups. A realistic case study rather than an idealized picture of cooperative learning.

$30.00


Controversy in the Classroom, 1979
David and Roger Johnson

12-minute VHS videotape showing 5th and 6th grade students reenacting a structured cooperative controversy. (Note: This film is specifically intended for use with courses on conflict.)

$30.00


Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers, 1991
David and Roger Johnson

10-minute VHS videotape presenting the steps of training students to (a) negotiate wise solutions to interpersonal conflicts and (b) mediate classmates' conflicts. A great introduction to peer mediation programs.

$30.00


Positive Interdependence: the Heart of Cooperative Learning, 1992
David and Roger Johnson

15-minute VHS videotape presenting the nature of positive interdependence and how to structure it within cooperative learning lessons. A great introduction to the most essential component of cooperative learning.

$50.00
Additional copies of the enclosed booklet $5.00


We Can Help: Songs About Cooperation II, 1992
Produced by Dale Johnson

50-minute cassette tape. New recordings of ten songs about cooperation. Includes United We Stand, Lean ON Me, Living Hand in Hand, He Ain't Heavy, and several others.

$12.00


I Can't, We Can: Songs About Cooperation I, 1991
Produced by Dale Johnson

52-minute cassette tape. New recordings of 14 songs about cooperation. Includes Everything Is Beautiful, Getting to Know You, You've Got a Friend, What a Wonderful World, Wind Beneath My Wings, Stand By Me, and several others.

$12.00


Peacemakers: Songs About Conflict Resolution, 1995
Produced by Dale Johnson
50 minute casette tape

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