Cooperative Learning : Being A Child

The teacher prepares the students to operate in a small group together. This practice can enhance the student’s cooperative learning skills.

Cooperative learning, sometimes called small-group learning, is an instructional strategy in which small groups of students work together on a common task (TeacherVision, 2017). According to the Education Consumer Guide, Cooperative learning is successful because students of different levels of ability have the opportunity to use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement.

Allowing student collaboration in the classroom introduces the students to a variety of skills that they will use when they become adults. It teaches the students the fundamental skills associated with working as a collective unit toward a common goal. It also teaches the students time management, resource allocation and communication skills (McQuerrey, 2018). While

I have come to appreciate the dynamic of passionate students working together to accomplish common goals. Unfortunately, many modern students often come to loathe cooperative learning. Some students are apathetic about group projects altogether, and others are discouraged by their classmates’ lack of effort. As a SELF fellow, I will have the opportunity to collaborate and form valuable connections with like-minded and ambitious students.

Secondly, the intervention goal is to improve students’ comfortability and motivation to work together to co-create knowledge. To promote group work and collaboration, cooperative learning will be used so students can work together to make sense of new information and solve problems. The first step is to ensure that the students understand and believe that the classroom is a safe and a nonjudgmental environment which will be accomplished by having students at the beginning of the schoolyear introduce themselves, provide their interests, and state what they would like to learn from the class. The teacher will establish pre-assigned, diverse, semester-length, groups for students to complete group work. Once students are acquainted with each other, they will engage in team-building exercises pertinent to a particular American history topic being learned to help develop rapport (e.g., each group member teaches each other something new about the topic). Overall, these steps will create a cooperative learning environment that will initiate motivation and comfortability.

(Woolfolk, 2013) talks about Cooperative learning, which is learning by working and talking to others. This allows participants to engage in discussion, elaborate, question and expand on their knowledge with each other. This can take place within group work, paired work and between teacher and pupil. Vygotsky’s theory suggest that for learning to be successful during social interaction; reasoning, comprehension, critical thinking takes place and then is internalised. Cooperative learning provides the purposes for scaffolding to take place to help advance learning. (Woolfolk,

Cooperative learning will be a method I use in my classroom. I believe that in a cooperative learning group a student can learn socialization skills and how to work with others. This goes along with the pragmatic/progressive philosophy that children learn by doing. The progressivism teaching style also includes the incorporation of problem-solving and critical thinking techniques. I want my students to learn to think for themselves and be able to function in society. At the same time, I will be a fellow learner myself and

From my experience, students that have to sit and listen to lectures with no interaction all day do not perform as well as those who are doing hands on activities as well as cooperative learning. I do not want to have a dictatorship of a classroom. I want my students to feel free to ask questions and to talk to their classmates about the lesson. I feel students not only obtain knowledge form their teacher, but they learn a tremendous amount from other students. This is where cooperative learning comes into play. This strategy is very effective in getting students involved. Sometimes students feel more comfortable in small groups of their peers. During my observations, I noticed that students learn a tremendous amount from other students. Some students

Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. Students work through the assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it. Cooperative efforts result in participants striving for mutual benefit so that all group members: * gain from each other's efforts. (Your success benefits me and my success benefits you.) * recognize that all group members share a common fate. (We all

Cooperative learning is one of the best studied academic strategies in the history of educational research, with over 1,000 research studies on the subject dating as far back as 1898 (Stanne, Johnson & Johnson, 1999). There are so many studies, in fact, that the most easily to get to point of entry into the literature is meta-analyses of large numbers of studies. The most important piece of information is that cooperative learning models have been established to have an obviously positive impact on student achievement.

Introducing collaborative learning will help students develop skills in social interaction, classroom engagement, and self-motivation. They need to learn these skills at a young age so they can interact with other children and create relationships with their peers. This is an important standard to teach the student’s because they will carry social interaction skills and self-motivation throughout their whole educational careers and throughout their

Collaborative learning is a great tool for instructors to motivate their student to work with their peers. It is a challenge for teachers to guide their students to work as a team and allocate them into one group. To form a group is an unnatural process, instructors need to rely on the detail of assignment, the nature of the task, students’ personality and their abilities to form a group. If a teacher fails to examine necessary factors before forming a group, it will experience a conflict or unbalance team and directly affect the work performance (Barkley, et al,

An important skill for students to develop in school is collaboration. During this course, I learned more in-depth knowledge about students working with others within a concept called cooperative learning. Cooperative learning is one of three goal structures associated with motivation. The three structures are cooperative, competitive, and individualistic. Though all three are used to motivate students to achieve goals, I believe cooperative is the most ideal goal structure for student development. Cooperative learning involves putting student in groups for a lesson and requiring all students to succeed in order for any one individual to earn rewards. This strategy enforces individual accountability for each child to complete their share

Collaborative learning is founded on the idea that the learning process is a naturally social act which requires the participants to talk among themselves. Collaborative learning involves small groups of students who act on a structured learning activity to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product. In simpler terms, the students work in groups to learn or understand a new concept they are studying. In this learning approach, it is important to understand that the students are accountable for individual work as well as the group work they do as a group in collaborative learning

Since the establishment of cooperative learning prior to WWII, many theorists, psychologist and philosophers begun to study the effects of this theory. According to Slavin, 1980, cooperative learning is a teaching strategy that requires the students to work in