Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning

1. Definition

   • is considered as a pedagogical approach to teaching which employs the participation and interaction of learning in a small group of students where an activity is organized in the form of learning taking into account the exchange of information in which each student feels motivated and responsible for acquiring new knowledge.

2. Characterization Activities

   • 1. Formal cooperative learning groups: which last from one class period to several weeks. They are set up for a specific task and in them students work together to achieve shared learning objectives.
   • 2. Informal cooperative learning groups: based on ad hoc groups lasting from a few minutes to a class period and used to facilitate student learning in the face of didactic teaching and to create a focus for students.
   • 3. Cooperative base groups. These are long term, lasting for at least a year and consist of heterogeneous learning groups with stable membership whose primary purpose is to allow members to give each other the support, help, encouragement, and assistance they need to succeed academically.

3. Learner roles

   • must learn to work in teams and in collaboration with different members of the class. members of the class, as students are authors of their learning and are already involved in planning, monitoring and and they are already involved in planning, supervising and evaluating their learning, therefore, the student must be responsible and applied to the activities and applied to the activities proposed by the teacher, thus allowing to guarantee the learning the progress of learning in them.

4. Teacher roles

   • the teacher must comply with the implementation of a safe learning environment, including the learning environment, also including organizational parameters to be applied in a classroom. that must be applied in a classroom, as teachers are the facilitator in terms of knowledge the facilitator in terms of knowledge acquisition by the students.

5. Materials

   • Materials play an important role in creating opportunities for learners to work with opportunities for students to work cooperatively. cooperatively. The same materials that are used in The same materials are used in other types of lessons, but the way in which they are used should be varied. The same materials are used in other types of lessons, but the way in which they are used should be varied, as there are application materials in this method such as: puzzles, written workshops, sharing answers, joint activities, ECT.