Let’s not turn this into an academic exercise.
Cooperative learning occurs when a group of kids come together to explore or solve a problem by working and learning together. I know a lot of teachers plonk this into the group work category, but it seldom is.
The purpose is to work together to do something that they could NOT do individually. That is why group work is not really cooperative learning. Often time group work fails because it is not structured correctly and has no chance to become cooperative.
What cooperative learning does, when used properly, is ENGAGE the students.
But they need an appropriate task or investigation.
CLICK HERE for a suitable task.
CLICK HERE for strategies that support cooperative learning.
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