Background
Ellis, Susan Stokes was born on September 10, 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Charles Warbrook and Lois (Holmes) Stokes.
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Cooperative Learning: Getting Started (Teaching strategies)
(Scholastic Professional Books 1990 by Susand S Ellis & Su...)
Scholastic Professional Books 1990 by Susand S Ellis & Susan F Whalen. Noting that children's leisure time today seldom involves the kind of cooperation that the old neighborhood games of the past provided, having given way to television, computer games and supervised sports, the authors stress the need for teaching social skills and cooperation within the classroom. If you think that by setting up small group activities in your classroom, you are using cooperative learning, you really need to read this book. Although whole language and skills are often in direct opposition, Whalen and Ellis's skills list would facilitate learning in any whole language classroom. They are: "Basic Group Skills: • getting into your group quietly and quickly • bringing necessary materials with you •staying with your group until the task is done •talking in quiet voices •listening to your partner(s) •calling your partner(s) by name •knowing your task(s) Function Skills: •taking turns •contributing your ideas •supporting your point with evidence •asking for help when you need it •encouraging others to contribute •complimenting others' contributions •checking for understanding •keeping the group focused on the task Higher-Order Thinking Skills: •providing clarification •building on another's ideas •paraphrasing another's idea to show you understand it •analyzing your group's process •coming to consensus •synthesizing several ideas •evaluating the group's work •criticizing an idea, but not the person who presented it."
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Cooperative Learning: Getting Started (Teaching strategies) by Susan S. Ellis (1996-06-01)
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Teaching Strategies
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Susan Stokes Ellis
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Susan Stokes Ellis, American Staff development coordinator. Fundraiser Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1985-1991; volunteer United Way of Greenwich, since 1992. Member ASCD, National Staff Development Council (trustee 1981-1985, president 1983-1984, Distinguished Svc. award 1990), American Ednl. Research Association.
Education
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1962; Master of Arts in Teaching, Harvard University, 1963; Doctor of Education, Columbia University, 1975.
Career
Teacher of English, Tappan Zee H.S., Orangeburg, New York, 1963-1965;
founding trustee, co-director, New Children's School, New York City, 1968-1971;
instructor, Teachers College Columbia U, New York City, 1974-1975;
co-director presvc. program, Teachers College Columbia U, New York City, 1975-1976;
coordinator for staff development and planning, Greewich (Connecticut) Public Schools, since 1979. Board overseers Regional Laboratory for Ednl. Improvement of N.E. and Islands, Andover, Massachusetts, 1985-1995, board chair, 1991-1994.
Member alumni county Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, since 1993. Director International Association for Study of Cooperative in Education, Santa Cruz, since 1995.
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Cooperative Learning: Getting Started (Teaching strategies)
(Scholastic Professional Books 1990 by Susand S Ellis & Su...)
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Cooperative Learning: Getting Started (Teaching strategies) by Susan S. Ellis (1996-06-01)
(Teaching Strategies)
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Cooperative Learning: Getting Started (Teaching strategies)
Membership
Fundraiser Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1985-1991. Volunteer United Way of Greenwich, since 1992. Member ASCD, National Staff Development Council (trustee 1981-1985, president 1983-1984, Distinguished Svc. award 1990), American Ednl.
Research Association.
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Children: Harold HolmesEllis, Chad Stokes Ellis.
