Transcript Cooperative Learning A teaching strategy for covenant and content COOPERATIVE LEARNING WHAT IT IS NOT: • The panacea for all your instructional problems… • The only way.

Cooperative Learning
A teaching strategy for
covenant and content
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
WHAT IT IS NOT:
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The panacea for all your instructional problems…
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The only way to teach effectively…
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The best way to teach everything….
Differences Between
Traditional Groupwork and
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative
Traditional
Positive interdependence
No interdependence
Individual accountability
No individual accountability
Heterogeneous groups
Homogeneous groups
Shared leadership
One leader
Shared responsibility for each
other
Responsibility to self only
Differences (con’t.)
• Task and group behavior emphasizedOnly task is emphasized
• Social skills directly taught
• Group processing on teamwork
processing
Social skills assumed
No group
ELEMENTS OF
COOPERATIVELY STRUCTURED LEARNING
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Group heterogeneity
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Positive group interdependence
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Individual accountability
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Leadership skills
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Group processing
SOME BENEFITS OF COOPERATIVELY STRUCTURED
LEARNING:
THE RESEARCH
 Facilitates higher achievement, particularly among students in the lower
50th
percentile.
 Increases student perspective-taking
 Can foster better attitude toward school
 Increases retention at school
 Increases intrinsic motivation
 Can foster more positive heterogeneous relationships
 Can foster more language development
 Increases self-esteem
 Encourages greater collaboration
 Fosters more on-task behavior (if done correctly!)
 Encourages more positive psychological adjustment
 Provides more social support
CONTINUUM OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING
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May be:
Simple
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May feature:
Cooperation
to
Appropriate competition
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May use:
Pairs
Triad
Quartets
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May last:
1 class session
Up to six weeks
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May require:
Few social skills
Many social skills
to
Complex