Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning

1. What is Cooperative learning?

   • It is an instructional strategy where small teams of students (2 – 6 members) work together to maximize their individual and collective learning.

2. How cooperative learning works?

   • Students cooperate with one another and work through the assignment until each team member successfully understands and completes it.

3. 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.
   • Teams are heterogeneous in gender, race, culture, and socioeconomic status.
   • Team members cooperate and collaborate.
   • Team members benefit from the individual contributions of the individual team members.
   • Rewards are oriented towards the group.

4. 5 Elements of cooperative learning.

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

5. Positive interdependence

   • Tasks and goals are clearly defined and commitment is made to both, personal as well as group success.
   • Efforts of each team member benefits the individuals as well as the group. success.

6. Individual and group accountability

   • Each team member must contribute to the group.
   • Each team member must help the group reach its goals.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Group processing (Reflection)

   • communicate openly, freely, respectfully discussing their concerns.
     • describe what members actions are helpful and unhelpful.
       • make decisions about behaviors to continue, to change, or discontinue.

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