Cooperative Learning
During the weekend I spent learning about the theories and structures of cooperative learning, I was captivated by five components of cooperative learning. I intend to use these five in my own classroom. They begin with the introduction games Pleased to Meet You and Knotting Acquaintance followed by the creation of base groups and finally STAD and TGT. These are five basic, yet exciting ways to use cooperative groups in the classroom.
I will use the first two introduction games at the start of the school year, because students are nervous about the start of school and these games are great for breaking the ice. I would start with the pleased to meet you form. This gets students talking amongst one another and opens the door for the new students to see that they have things in common with their new peers. Once they have had ample time to complete the questionnaire I would have them take a seat and tell me about some of the common traits they shared. After we spent a few minutes talking about the importance of working as a team and learning to count or your partners we would work through the Knotting Acquaintance activity. This would show me who the leaders were, who the analyzers were and who was simply going to follow the others. This is another activity that will help the new students become a part of the group. By feeling comfortable in the classroom the new students will feel less shock about being in a new school and will assimilate t...
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Cooperative Learning is a method of learning in groups to work on a project together, andthis learning not only will help student to work together with their friend but also will improve their skill in working together to solve a problem or to socialize with people. Cooperative Learning has many impacts and advantages. According Zoltan Dornyei There is other meaningabout cooperative learning on the statement below.
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Slavin, R.(1980). Cooperative Learning. Review of Educational Research, 50(2), 315-342. Retrieved May 8, 2014 from the Wilson Web database.
Cooperative Learning: The students are placed back into their Rescue squad groups that ideally have four students in each. Each squad will then be given a specific phase of a childbirth. During the learning, each squad will need to determine exactly what the pathophysiology is as well as identify four of the following physical components they should expect to see. For each phase of childbirth the squad as a team need to complete the following.
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In this essay, I will discuss cooperative learning as an instructional strategy. I chose to focus on cooperative learning after reading Borich’s discussion on the many ways in which in benefits students and their learning. According the Borich (2006), cooperative learning helps students to form their personal attitudes and values, increase prosocial behavior, teaches students to view the world from alternative perspectives, allows students to develop an integrated identity, and encourages higher order thinking.
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Collaborative and cooperative learning promotes student learning through group-oriented activities. Collaborative learning is a method of teaching and learning in which student teams will work together to create a meaningful multimedia project. Cooperative learning, which will be the primary focus of this paper, is a specific kind of collaborative learning. In cooperative learning, students work together in small groups on a structured activity. Cooperative groups will work face-to-face and will learn to work as a team. The multimedia project will allow all students to benefit from gaining a deeper knowledge of the multimedia matters through communication with their peers and building relationships among their peers of different ethnic, backgrounds, learning abilities and gender.
Scarnati, J. T. (2001). Cooperative learning: make groupwork work. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 67(Fall), 71-82.
Drawing heavily on the work of developmental psychologists Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky advocates of Cooperative Language Learning maintain that social interaction plays a central role in language learning (Richards, 194). Cooperative Language learning is defined as students spending most of their time w2orking in small groups of up to 6 students. The students are divided up into small groups and learning takes place through peer teaching, joint problem solving, brainstorming, and varied interpersonal communication and individual study monitored by peers. Learning is structured so that the group is motivated to ensure that their peers have mastered the material or achieved the instructional goal so that a process of cooperation is generated (Finchpark).
There have recently been many new trends towards the use of cooperative learning in many classrooms, particularly in mathematics classrooms. Cooperative learning involves students working together to accomplish shared goals. In this type of situation, students must feel they can only reach their learning goals if the other students in their group also reach their own learning goals. Students have to understand their achievements are interrelated. Cooperative learning helps students to fully understand the mathematical concepts and assists them in developing social skills that will take them through life.
Cooperative learning is learning that occurs when students work in small groups to help each other learn (educational psychology). Throughout my years in the U.S. educational system, I have taken part in cooperative learning system. At times, I have found that it works very well each group member contributes information to the project or the worksheet and we learn off of each other. Other times, I have found that cooperative leaning doesn’t work. I will go in to more detail about why the cooperative learning does and does not work later in this paper. First, I would like to go in to more detail about what cooperative learning is.