By: IvyLynn Powell
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Cooperative Learning
LESSON GOALS:
LESSON GOALS:
After reading this lesson you will be able to explain and define cooperative learning.
After reading this lesson you will be able to apply cooperative learning into your classrooms.
After reading this lesson you will be able to explain how to get kids to participate in cooperative learning.
What is cooperative learning:
What is cooperative learning:
Cooperative learning is the base of most active learning styles. It's a method that pushes students to work together to capitalize on one another's ideas and thoughts to advance their learning. For cooperative learning, students are put into small groups to work together to achieve a common goal. The most important idea is that cooperative learning allows students to use each other as a resource to improve their learning. Cooperative learning helps students advance their positive interdependence, promotive interaction, interpersonal and social skills, group processing, and individual accountability.
Step by step to form a cooperative learning group.
Step by step to form a cooperative learning group.
Set your students up in groups.
By setting different groups each day you allow your students to meet new people which advances there interpersonal and social skills
Set roles for each group member.
By setting roles you eliminate the chances of a group member not participating. This will advance students individual accountability.
Examples of roles: Scribe (person who writes down everything the group is thinking), Speaker (the presenter of all group information), Inquirer (asks the teacher questions), Manager (tracks materials and tasks).
As a teacher, walk around, observe, and help when needed.
Then discuss with each group. Ask about what problems they had; what went well for the group, and some issues the group came across.
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
Personally, cooperative learning is something I would like to incorporate into my future classroom every day. Kids do not want to sit in a school and listen to their teacher talk for hours and hours. Cooperative learning forces students to engage with their learning. It allows students to learn better by participating and collaborating with their peers. It helps kids feel more confident in their learning when they know they can take action on their goals without the teacher for a change.
Quiz:
Quiz:
Which best describes cooperative learning?
a. Students answer questions as a class when given by the teacher.
b. Students work in groups to achieve a common goal.
c. Students work on questions individually, then discuss them after.
d. Students take notes on the teachers lecture.
List two examples of student roles in a cooperative learning group.
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Do you think cooperative learning can be useful in a Kindergarten classroom? If so, how?
Answers:
B
Any two of the following: Scribe, Speaker, Inquirer, Manager.
Free response (opinion based question)
References:
References:
Cooperative learning: Team work makes the dream work. Science Teaching. (n.d.). Retrieved February 14, 2022, from https://sites.miamioh.edu/edt431-531/2019/10/cooperative-learning-team-work-makes-the-dream-work/
Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, R. T. (2018, November 5). Chapter: Cooperative Learning: The foundation for active learning. IntechOpen. Retrieved February 14, 2022, from https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/63639
Ehsan, N., Vida, S., & Mehdi, N. (2019). The impact of cooperative learning on developing speaking ability and motivation toward learning English. Journal of Language and Education, 5(3 (19)).
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