Cooperative learning is an approach to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively toward academic goals. Unlike individual learning, which can be competitive in nature, students learning cooperatively capitalize on one another’s resources and skills.

 

Furthermore, he teacher’s role changes from giving information to facilitating students learning.

 

Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds. Successful cooperative learning tasks are intellectually demanding, creative, open-minded and involve higher order thinking tasks.

 

Cooperative learning is structured, facilitated and monitored by the educator overtime and is used to achieve group goal in tasks work.

 

When designing cooperative learning tasks and reward structures, individual responsibility and accountability must be identified.

By: Melissa L. Baluyot | Teacher I | Abucay North Elementary School | Abucay, Bataan