Nov, 2019 cooperative learning is an instructional strategy that enables small groups of students to work together on a common assignment. In 67 studies of the achievement effects of cooperative learning, 61% found significantly greater achievement in cooperative groups than in traditionally taught control groups. Cooperative learning in the classroom by jolliffe, wendy ebook. Cooperative learning groups present models that compare and contrast graphic and numeric representations of reallife problems in context. It, again, is much more than cooperative learning activities but has a few good ones in there, too. Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy that enables small groups of students to work together on a common assignment. Kagan cooperative learning structures for engagement smartcard included in this trifold smartcard are 27 of kagans very best cooperative learning structures.
When it comes to cooperative learning techniques, i was surprised to learn that the jigsaw strategy has been used for over 30 years in the classroom. The task can be as simple as solving a multistep math problem together, or as complex as developing a design for a new kind of school. Use cooperative learning groups to engage learners. Cooperative learning has been proven to be effective for all types of students, including academically gifted, mainstream students and english language learners ells because it promotes learning and fosters respect and friendships among diverse groups of students. By nature, both multimedia projects and cooperative learning groups require attention to detail in the planning process. In a nutshell, cooperative learning is a highly structured form of group work that focuses on the problemsolving that bain and zimmerman this issue suggest can lead studentswhen directed by a good teacherto deep learning and genuine paradigm shifts in their thinking. Teammates try to find which of the three statements is the fiction. To quote the johnsons, cooperative learning groups have five essential elements positive interdependence, individual accountability, facetoface promotive interaction, social skills, and processing built carefully into every lesson to teach the students to learn well. The group has only one pencil, paper, book, or other resource. Cooperative learning can result in higher achievement than other learning styles. Recent methods and effects on achievement, attitudes, and ethnic relations shiomo sharan school of education, telaviv university five recently published methodsfor conducting cooperative smallgroup learning in the classroom, and the experimental studies conducted by the authors of.
Through cooperative learning pupils get a lot of opportunities to practice their. Informal groups last only brief periods of time, from a. Making cooperative learning powerful educational leadership. There is much more to cooperative learning than merely arranging students into groups, and it has been described as structuring positive interdependence.
The book covers the nature of cooperative learning, the essential components that make it work, the teachers role, the structuring of positive interdependence and individual accountability, teaching students social skills, group processing, and forming teacher colleagial support groups. Now its time to divide students into groups and use the jigsaw cooperative learning technique to research the first americans. Informal cooperative learning activities such as random reporter or thinkpairshare may also be used, but these shouldnt be the only cooperative activity. The book is much more than cooperative learning activities, but those have been the best takeaway from the book for me. Many teachers love the idea of partner and group work, but teaching students how to do it is a daunting task. Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. Then, students complete an independent practice activity or quiz for individual accountability. Creating even a short video or animation is a complex task that requires many roles and responsibilities. List of books and articles about cooperative learning. The result, in general, suggest that cooperative learning develops highorder thinking. Cooperative learning definition of cooperative learning by. Cooperative learning is an approach that organizes and structures student groups based on three essential features that help students learn from each other. Rely on active student participation rather than passive, lecturebased teaching. Cooperative learning is widely recognised as a pedagogical practice that promotes socialization and learning among students from preschool through to tertiary level and across different subject domains.
Spencer kagans most popular book is cooperative learning. For this lesson divide students into groups of five students. A guidebook for cooperative learning eric us department of. Use a culminating day for groups to share their books with other groups, as students may want to read the other books on their own. Kagans approach to cooperative learning is summarized in this colorful, laminated smartcard. As a teacher who already had the basics i was disappointed in the book because i was hoping for some new adaptations and felt it was low on actual. Formal cooperative learning one of rogers favorite demonstration science lessons is to ask students to determine how long a candle burns in a quart jar.
Pdf teacher practices and smallgroup dynamics in cooperative learning classrooms. Whether the goal is to increase student understanding of content, to build particular transferable skills, or some combination of the two, instructors often turn to small group work to capitalize on the benefits of peertopeer instruction. In cooperative learning, students work together in small groups to complete a structured task or goal. Assigning specific group work roles or jobs to each person can work wonders in keeping all kids engaged and preventing squabbles within a group. Each type of group has a different purpose no single one is intrinsically good or bad. Groups work to make sure every member understands the lesson and can complete a demonstration activity. Research on classroom cooperative learning techniques, in which students work in small groups and receive rewards or recognition based on their group performance, has been increasing in the past few years. We highly recommend this handy little quickreference card to anyone purchasing the book, kagan cooperative learning. It is more than just working in a group, as group work alone does not guarantee cooperative.
Teammates write three statementsproblemssentences with punctuationhistory factsetc two true. Cooperative learning strategies contains ideas and suggestions to help foster academic and social skill learning in your students. Cooperative learning is presented as a technique that helps raise the achievement of all students. The following are some ideas for using cooperative groups in your classroom. Great book, tons of great ideas, and lot of resources included. The social and intellectual outcomes of learning in groups and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The foundation for using cooperative learning in your classroom. I highly recommend his book cooperative learning which is available from. The revised edition has a title of kagan cooperative learning. The parameters often vary, as students can work collaboratively on a variety of problems, ranging from simple math problems to large assignments such as proposing environmental solutions on a national level. Part of the computersupported collaborative learning book series culs, volume 8. Studentgenerated multimedia is a natural environment for cooperative learning.
Cooperative learning, sometimes called small group learning, is an instructional strategy in which small groups of students work together on a common task. This book provides specific strategies for the classroom teacher beginning to use cooperative learning or improving the use of cooprative learning. Dont leave the cooperative learning activities at the. A synthesis of research about cooperative learning finds that cooperative learning strategies improve the achievement of students and their interpersonal relationships. Cooperative learning is a resource for all teachers to bring cooperative learning techniques into the classroom. Spencer kagan has 34 books on goodreads with 1571 ratings. The model discussed in this book include introducing the instruction of social skills as well as encouraging students to engage in higherorder learning. Divide students into groups, the number depends on how many subtopics you want the students to research. Despite this, the pedagogy is popular in classrooms across districts and grade levels, creating a need for tips and information that teachers can act upon below is a guide that covers general principles and specific strategies to use for each of the three types of. Implementing cooperative base groups in such a way that students meet regularly for the duration of a course completing cooperative learning tasks can provide the permanent support and caring that students need to make academic progress and develop cognitively and socially in healthy ways. The first edition has the title of cooperative learning dr. With these structures, you wont have to worry if your cooperative learning lessons respect the principles known to increase student achievement and improve social relations. Ive already purchased a copy from an amazon seller, but received the 1st edition.
In eight accessible chapters, wendy jolliffe, lecturer in primary education at hull university, outlines the theory and practice of cooperative learning and shows how the outcomes and aims of every child matters 2004 can be clearly mapped to the advantages of cooperative learning. Cooperative learning, sometimes called smallgroup learning, is an instructional strategy in which small groups of students work together on a common task. The instructor of the group is a very important personality or entity that directs the movements of groups. Due to inherent time constraints, your role is to give clear instruction and assign the completion of a product, such as a written or spoken answer. Many instructors from disciplines across the university use group work to enhance their students learning. Peer evaluation form the form below is deliberately set up to be in the form of a set of opinions. Google sites is a free service that allows students and teachers to create. Cooperative learning tips and tricks the cornerstone for. The classroom book clubs program is a terrific alternative to the traditional teacher workshop as a way of learning how to implement literature circles. Mar 02, 2017 this style of cooperative learning involves creating groups that, between a few minutes and an entire class, work to achieve a shared and straightforward learning goal. One important reason for its advocacy is that numerous research studies in k12 classrooms, in very diverse school settings and across a wide range of content areas, have revealed that students completing cooperative learning group tasks tend to have. Educational research has helped put cooperative learning into focus as an effective teaching learning strategy. Cooperative and collaborative learning in the classroom.
Feel free to create your own methods after you are familiar. The teachers role in implementing cooperative learning in the. Cooperative learning is doubtlessly a great way of learning. This is the simplest of all cooperative learning structures. Advantages of using cooperative learning cooperative learning is supported by one of the strongest research traditions in education, with thousands of studies conducted across a wide range of subject areas, age groups, ability levels and cultural backgrounds. This book contains six reproducible jigsaw units which are based on the principles of cooperative learning. Included in this selection is the theory behind conducting cooperative learning groups, strategies for implementing as well as suggestions for ifwhen something may go wrong. Finding a resource that explores cooperative learning is easy, but many ignore strategies for delivering the teaching approach. The web has become much more than an electronic reference book. Learn how in a free download of chapter 27 of the cornerstone book, hands on and. Instead, conscious thought goes in to helping students make the. Here are just some of the similarities that exist between a cooperative learning and collaborative learning approach for students.
In fact, the more diversity in a team, the higher the benefits for each student. The study underscores a cooperative learning approachs ability to provide students the. Cooperative learning groups study data in various forms to make a frayer model presentation to the class. List of books and articles about cooperative learning online. Johnson and johnsons thoughts on cooperative learning.
The cooperative learning strategies include the following titles. Download more tips for cooperative learning and group work for free. Five cooperative learning activities to do on the first. On the front of the card, youll pick up tips on how to tighten up your cooperative learning lessons using pies. It covers grouping in pairs and small groups to build a team learning spirit in the classroom. A gallery walk allows groups to see each others work. He assigns students to groups of two, making the pairs as heterogeneous as possible. Education theory a studentcentered teaching strategy in which heterogeneous groups of students work to achieve a common academic goaleg, completing a case study or a evaluating a qc problem. Becoming an effective teacher using cooperative learning.
A comprehensive view of the use of formal cooperative learning lessons, informal cooperative learning groups, and. If this is the first cooperative learning page on daily teaching tools that you have read, you may be interested in seeing the overview to cooperative learning, grouping strategies, and cooperative learning packet pages. Spencer kagan developed the structural approach to cooperative learning, and ive found it to be extremely effective. It breaks everything down and gives you a basic overview of the whys and hows of implementing. Cooperative learning not only encourages students on learning the groups tasks and activities but also helps them in building a social personality in them.
The cooperative learning lesson is at the heart of the johnson model. Cooperative learning is more than grouping children together it is helping students learn to work together toward a common learning goal with each person doing their part in the project. Learners are challenged to create and explain the data in tables and equations within the context. The computersupported collaborative learning book series is for people. Cooperative learning is one of the most widespread and fruitful areas of theory, research. Im the author of five cooperative learning books published by kagan, and you can find those links at the bottom of this page.
Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and. Books by spencer kagan author of cooperative learning. The point is that cooperative learning involves more than just asking students to work. Johnsons and johnsons have great and matchless contribution in the field of cooperative learning. Cooperative learning works well when it is a part of the culture of a classroom, and when students are familiar with working together and know what is expected of them.
The effects of cooperative learning on the classroom participation 241 in the structured cooperative learning groups that replicated the framework outlined by d. It explains conceptually what cooperative learning is and what makes it work. Students assume a degree of responsibility for their own learning. This page which is an overview of chapter 27 from the cornerstone book will help you create welldefined routines and procedures for cooperative learning strategies to expedite transitions and minimize off task behavior. Defining cooperative learning as instructional programs in which students work in small groups to help one another master academic content, slavin praised it as a way to capitalize on the developmental characteristics of adolescents in order to harness their peer orientation, enthusiasm, activity, and craving for independence within a safe. The form shown above is an adaptation of a cooperative learning evaluation form created by laura candler, used here with the authors permission. Additionally, i have three more pages planned for the immediate future that you may find useful. By nature, both multimedia projects and cooperative learning groups require attention to. Since students work through an assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it, this teaching strategy creates an atmosphere of achievement. The use of learning methodologies based on groups in higher engineering education has been supported by several studies that justify the application of cooperative learning johnson and johnson. One approach to providing collaborative opportunities for students of biology is cooperative learning, a theoretically grounded and wellresearched approach in education that can increase students learning of subject matter and improve their attitudes toward both academics in general and the subject matter specifically springer et al. In cooperative learning, students are assigned to work in small heterogeneous groups of four or five, allowing for the integration of gender, race and achievement level.
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