Many Educators have criticized the competitive atmosphere that dominates some classrooms. They believe that pitting student against student in achieving teacher assigned grades creates an adversarial relationship between students and teachers and is contrary to later on the job teamwork. Some teachers feel competition in the classroom can interfere with learning.

Cooperative learning involves small groups of students working together to learn collaborative and social skills while working towards a common academic goal or task. This method is specifically designed to encourage students to work together, drawing on their individual experiences, skills, and levels of motivation to help each other achieve the desired result. The central idea is that cooperation and interaction allow students to learn from several sources, not just the teacher, while also providing each student opportunities to share their own abilities and knowledge.

Each student in the group is accountable to the group for a different and specific aspect of the content. individual students cannot complete the task on their own, but must rely on others in the group. In this method, students apply communication and critical thinking skills to solve problems or to encourage and meaningful work together. a growing body of research supports the claim that students learn from each other when they work on projects as a team.

Cooperative groups have several uses including learning course content, promoting positive interactions and interdependence among groups of students, and teaching important social and communication skills. another important reason for using such an approach is to teach individual accountability when a group's success depends on the input of each individual in it, individuals learn to be accountable for their actions.

• Build an atmosphere that encourages participation and cooperation. Help students realize the advantages of working together as a team. This can be facilitated by requiring that all members of the group have roles to fill that are necessary for the group's success.

• Teach group processes to the students. Effective group cooperative efforts do not happen by chance.

• Learn to facilitate, not dominate. It is important for you to take on the role of monitor, facilitator, and guide instead of director.

Motivation Activities

• What strategies will you use to hold students’ attention throughout the lesson?

• What strategies will you use to help students see the relevance of the information?

• Will you use to increase students’ confidence in learning?

• What strategies will you use to increase student satisfaction in learning?

Orientation Activities

• Do to help students understand the objectives of the current lesson?

• What will you do to link the lesson to previous lesson?

• What will you do to form transitions?

• What will you do to summarize the lesson and Link it to future lessons?

Information Activities

• What major content ideas will you present? In what sequence? Using what examples?

• What will you do to help students understand and remember those ideas?

• What will you do to help students see the relationships among the ideas?

• What will you do to help students understand when and why the ideas will be useful?

Application Activities

• What will you do to give students an opportunity to apply their new knowledge or skill?

• How much guidance will you provide in what form will that guidance take?

• In what way will you give students feedback about their performance during practice?

Evaluation Activities

• What will you do to determine whether students have achieved the learning objectives?

• how will you give students feedback about their performance during the evaluation?