Cooperative Learning

 

"Cooperative Learning is not so much learning to cooperate as it is cooperating to learn." (Wong & Wong, 1998)

What is Cooperative Learning?
- a small group interactive instructional strategy that allows students to collaboratively work on meaningful tasks
- students working to help themselves and others in the group to learn
- academic engagement through social interaction
- activities structured so that students need each other to accomplish tasks

Cooperative Learning Strategy helps
- motivate students
- students construct their own knowledge
- students develop social and group work skills necessary in life
- promote positive interaction among students
-students learn through active involvement rather than sitting and listening and watching

 

Research has shown that students who learn cooperatively get higher grades than students who try to learn the same material individually (Johnson et al. 1991)

How do I do it? What does it look like? How do I assess? How can I learn more? What is it?

Best Practices: Pieces of the Puzzle

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