cooperative learning for els in the classroom
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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
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
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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