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Why Use Cooperative Learning

Research shows cooperative learning techniques increase student learning and academic achievement increase student retention enhance student self-esteem help to promote positive race relations. Cooperative learning activities can be used in a variety of ways. Teachers like to incorporate cooperative learning activities into their curriculum because there are many advantages.

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Why Use Cooperative Learning

Research shows cooperative learning techniques increase student learning and academic achievement increase student retention enhance student self-esteem help to promote positive race relations. Cooperative learning activities can be used in a variety of ways. Teachers like to incorporate cooperative learning activities into their curriculum because there are many advantages.

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Why use Cooperative Learning?

Research has shown that cooperative learning techniques: promote student learning and academic achievement increase student retention enhance student satisfaction with their learning experience help students develop skills in oral communication develop students' social skills promote student self-esteem help to promote positive race relations

5 Elements of Cooperative Learning


It is only under certain conditions that cooperative efforts may be expected to be more productive than competitive and individualistic efforts. Those conditions are:

1. Positive Interdependence
(sink or swim together) Each group member's efforts are required and indispensable for group success Each group member has a unique contribution to make to the joint effort because of his or her resources and/or role and task responsibilities

2. Face-to-Face Interaction
(promote each other's success) Orally explaining how to solve problems Teaching one's knowledge to other Checking for understanding Discussing concepts being learned Connecting present with past learning

3. Individual & Group Accountability


( no hitchhiking! no social loafing) Keeping the size of the group small. The smaller the size of the group, the greater the individual accountability may be. Giving an individual test to each student. Randomly examining students orally by calling on one student to present his or her group's work to the teacher (in the presence of the group) or to the entire class. Observing each group and recording the frequency with which each membercontributes to the group's work. Assigning one student in each group the role of checker. The checker asks other group members to explain the reasoning and rationale underlying group answers. Having students teach what they learned to someone else.

4. Interpersonal & Small-Group Skills


Social o o o o o skills must be taught: Leadership Decision-making Trust-building Communication Conflict-management skills

5. Group Processing
Group members discuss how well they are achieving their goals and maintaining effective working relationships Describe what member actions are helpful and not helpful Make decisions about what behaviors to continue or change

Reference: Kagan, Spencer. Cooperative Learning. San Clemente, CA: Kagan Publishing, 1994.

8 Advantages of Cooperative Learning


Teachers like to incorporate cooperative learning activities into their curriculum because there are so many benefits for the students and the class. Here are 8 advantages for using it. Students develop higher thinking skills. Students learn to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize the information that they need to learn. They improve their reasoning and logic skills. Students retain the information much longer when participating in cooperative learning. With activities where students merely read and memorize information, they forget everything very quickly. Students develop responsibility. In cooperative learning groups, each individual has specific responsibilities. They learn that they need to fulfill those responsibilities because the other students are depending on them. The success of the group depends on each group member. Nobody can be a person who sits in the back of the room trying to be unnoticed. Students develop self-confidence and self esteem. As they work on and solve difficult problems, they feel a sense of accomplishment. They realize that they CAN be successful. They can do the work and remember the material. Along with building self-confidence, cooperative learning builds social skills. Students learn how to get along, how to take turns, how to listen politely, and how to speak politely.

Class attendance improves. When students realize that their group is depending on them, students dont skip school. They make sure that they go to class so they can work with their team. Through cooperative learning activities, students learn how to see things from other peoples point of view. They have to listen to what others think and seriously think about and evaluate what was said. They also develop empathy for others. They look at how decisions affect people in their group and determine whether or not it was good. Students develop oral communication skills. When they realize that their group doesnt get what they said, students spend time thinking about how they could say things better to get their point across
Copyright 2011 Overseas Ed . All rights reserved. Retried from http://www.thai-edu-in-us.org/8advantages-of-cooperative-learning.htm on Nov 3th 2011

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