Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning

1. It is an instructional strategy

   • Small teams of students work together to maximize their individual and collective learning.   
   • Main objectives
     • The groups are organized
       •    After small groups are organized they receive instructions from their teacher.   
       • Set goals
       • The whole group successfully understand
         • The group reaches goals individually
           • All the members learn
           • Shared goals

2. What does a cooperative model look like?

   • Team mates are responsable for their own learning as well as for their teammates learning.
   • Teams are made up of high, medium and low academic achieving students.

3. They are comprising by

   • Teams are heterogeneous in gender, race, culture, and socioeconomic status.
   • Team members cooperate and collaborate.

4. Rewards are oriented towards the group.

   • Team members benefit from the individual contributions of the individual team members.

5. 5 Elements of cooperative learning

   • Positive interdependence
   • Individual and group accountability
   • Interpersonal and small group skills
   • Face to face promotive interaction
   • Group processing (Reflection)

6. Interpersonal and small group skills

   • Be able to manage conflicts.
   • Provide effective leadership
   • Be able to make decisions
   • Be able to build trust
   • Be able to communicate
   • Be motivated

7. Face to face promotive interaction

   • teach each other
   • Explain how to solve problems
   • Checks for one another´s understanding
   • Checks for one another´s understanding

8. Group processing (Reflection)

   • Group processing (Reflection)
   • describe what members actions are helpful and unhelpful
   • make decisions about behaviors to continue, to change, or discontinue

9. Essentials of effective cooperative learning groups

   • Participation
   • Trust
   • communication

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