Cooperative learning is a group work but not all group work is a cooperative learning. Mostly all the students feel more comfortable in a group work, they feel secure and they feel that they can make a better job and succeed. The selfish decrease in a group work and the interdependency increase.
In addition, cooperative learning including both objectives the academic and the social one. The social skill is also important as the same academic because the students will respect each other, listen to each other and many skills that benefit from it in the real life and leads to a better communication in the society.
Furthermore, the teacher should plan for the cooperative in the home and it needs more planning then the other models. Also the students should face each other in the group work and should benefit from each other.
The evaluation of the group work is depend on the academic and social skills, the group can either take one grade, or the teacher take one grade for the social skills, while each individual take a grade for their academic skills.
Cooperative learning is very helpful kind that teachers can use, it makes students feel challenged by the new learning strategies that teacher has introduced, and it helps them generate new ideas too..
ReplyDeleteCooperative Learning is very important. It introduce students to the real life that they should work with others. It helps students to be independent, respect others, listen to others, and many other skills. Teacher should teach students to cooperate with each other. Teacher should be careful when she put students in group, she should train them first with simple activities such as share- pair to go to more complex.
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