Cooperative learning

Cooperative learning

• 2.
  Presentation Title runshere l 00/00/002
• 3.
  WHAT IS COOPERATIVELEARNING?  It is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.  Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively toward academic goals.  Ross and Smyth (1995) describe successful cooperative learning tasks as intellectually demanding, creative, open- ended, and involve higher order thinking tasks.
• 4.
  Presentation Title runshere l 00/00/004 BENEFITSBENEFITS Students learning cooperatively can capitalize on one another’s resources and skills (asking one another for information, evaluating one another’s ideas, monitoring one another’s work, etc.)  The teacher's role changes from giving information to facilitating students' learning.  Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds.
• 5.
  Presentation Title runshere l 00/00/005
• 6.
  TYPES FORMAL IT is structured,facilitated, and monitored by the educator over time and is used to achieve group goals in task work. It involves group problem solving and decision making ( projects). Examples: Laboratory or experiment assignments Peer review work (e.g. editing writing assignments). INFORMAL It incorporates group learning with passive teaching by drawing attention to material through small groups. Typically involves groups of two (e.g. turn-to-your-partner discussions).  Groups are often temporary and can change from lesson to lesson. Discussions typically have four components that include formulating a response to questions asked by the educator, sharing responses to the questions asked with a partner, listening to a partner’s responses to the same question, and creating a new well- developed answer. Presentation Title runs here l 00/00/006
• 7.
  7 STRATEGIESSTRATEGIES FISH BOWL ROUND ROBIN ROUNDTABLE WRITE AROUND NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER JIGSAW TEA PARTY SPEED DATING CORNERS
• 8.
  THINK PAIR SHARE
• 9.
   REFERENCES  Calderón,M. (1984, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998). Cooperative Learning for Bilingual Instruction: Manual for Teachers and Teacher Trainers. El Paso, TX: MTTI.  Slavin, R.E. (1995). Cooprative learning: Theory, research, and practice (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.  Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, R. (1999). Learning together and alone: Cooperative, competitive, and individualistic learning (5th Ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
• 10.
  THANK YOU [email protected]