Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning

1. Meaning

   • Cooperative learning is the process that serves to separate students and be able to form small work groups so that they can discover their weaknesses and strengths, as well as to discover their abilities to socialize with their classmates in the classroom and help each other to to learn.

2. Qualities

   • Positive interdependence
     • Students feel responsible for their own effort and the effort of the group.
   • Face-to-face interaction
     • students encourage and support each other; the environment encourages discussion and eye contact, they also develop interaction skills and learn to live with students of the same age
   • Social Skills
     • Group members gain direct instruction in the interpersonal, social, and collaborative skills needed to work with others.
   • Individual and group accountability
     • Each student is responsible for doing their part of the work and the whole group is responsible for completing the proposed objective; leadership skills and more responsibility are encouraged and developed, as well as developing ways of understanding other students.

3. Types of cooperative learning

   • Formal Cooperative Learning
     • Formal cooperative learning consists of students working together, over a class period up to several weeks, to achieve shared learning objectives and complete specific tasks and assignments together, as well as us in some subjects such as Literature that let us read books and interpret them later; all responsibility falls on the students since they will be in charge of meeting and setting certain rules so that the performance of the group is optimal and the proposed objective is achieved.
   • Informal Cooperative Learning
     • Informal cooperative learning consists of students working together to achieve a learning objective in temporary groups that last from a few minutes to one class, and the responsibility of motivating the students rests with the teacher, because he has to do that teams are dynamic and interact with each other

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