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Point of Tile’s Definition of Cooperative Learning

Implementing Cooperative Learning in The Class Promoting positive interdependence

Help students develop teamwork skills

General Suggestions

Part of Questions

Summary

What is Cooperative Learning? It’s a collection of teaching strategies that focuses around

small groups that complete a single task and promotes social skills and requires group members to be accountable.

Robert Slavin Pioneer of cooperative learning

techniques, developed student team learning methods in which a team’s work is not completed until all students on the team understand the material being studied.

Five Basic Elements of Cooperative Learning

1. Positive Interdependence

2. Individual Accountability 3. Face-To-Face Interaction4. Appropriate use of collaborative skills5. Group Processing

Is it safe??? How to Implementing

Cooperative Learning in the Class??

Promoting positive interdepen

dence Assign different roles to team members

Use Jigsaw to set up specialized expertise within each team

Give a bonus on tests

Report is part of the team project

Assign the students roles Everyone in a group will help with creating a finished

product/answer, but everyone should also have a special role that is vital to completing the task

Jigsaw Each student (or group) learns about a topic (or part of

a topic)

It is then each student (or groups) job to teach everyone else in the class about their topic

When you have to teach about something your brain is forced to critically think about it so you can present it to others

Help students develop team

work skills Establish team policies and expectations

Keep groups intact for at least a month

Provide for periodic self-assessment of team functioning

Give students tools for managing conflict

Use crisis clinics to equip students to deal with difficult team

General Suggestions Start small and build

At the start of the course, explain to students what you’re doing, why you’redoing it, and what’s in it for them

Make team assignments more challenging than traditional individual

assignments

Don’t curve course grades

Conduct a midterm assessment to find out how students feel about teamwork

Expect initial resistance from students

Part of Questions !

SUMMARY Cooperative learning refers to work done by student teams producing a

product of some sort (such as a set of problem solutions, a laboratory or

project report, or the design of a product or a process), under conditions

that satisfy five criteria: (1) positive interdependence, (2) individual accou

-ntability, (3) face-toface interaction for at least part of the work, (4) appr-

opriate use of interpersonal skills, and (5) regular self-assessment of team

functioning

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