Cooperative+Learning




 * What is Cooperative Learning?** [[file:CooperativeLearning.pdf]]

=Why Cooperative Learning? = = = = We are facing four interrelated crises in education, each of which is becoming more intense because of changes in economics, urbanization, migration, differential birth rates, culture, socialization, and technology. = = = = Cooperative Learning is the most extensively researched educational innovation of all time and the results are clear...Cooperative Learning boosts academic achievement! =

= = = = = = = = = = =1. __Structures__ - Helps organize classroom instruction. = =2. __Teams__ - Ideally consists of four members with strong, positive identities. = =3. __Management __ - Including noise, seating, materials, directions, and problem solving. = =4. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">__Classbuilding__ - The process by which a room full of individuals with different backgrounds and experiences, become a caring community of active learners. = =<span style="display: block; font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 7, 7); text-align: left;">5. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">__Teambuilding__ - Does for the team what classbuilding does for the class. = =<span style="display: block; font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 7, 7); text-align: left;">6. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">__Social Skills__ - Cooperative learning enables the students to have practice in critical life skills needed for success in the workplace, for family life, and for positive social relations. = =<span style="display: block; font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 7, 7); text-align: left;">7. <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">__PIES__ - The four basic principles (Positive Interdependence, Individual Accountability, Equal Participation, and Simultaneous Interaction) are the essence of cooperative learning. =

=<span style="display: block; color: rgb(126, 7, 7); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;">Make Cooperative Learning Part of Any Lesson! = =<span style="display: block; font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">"<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A cooperative learning lesson may take the entire period or span multiple periods. Some cooperative learning structures are completed in the matter of minutes. We may not have the time to implement a cooperative lesson when there are competing lessons to teach. But regardless of what we teach and how things change, we will be more effective if we teach using cooperative learning structures. Don't teach separate cooperative learning lessons! Integrate cooperative learning. Use structures to make cooperative learning part of every lesson!"--Dr. Spencer Kagan =