Cooperative Learning
In first year of teaching, you find yourself in a
school where teachers have not paid much attention to cooperative learning in
the past. It is not that they are against cooperative learning; they simply
have chosen to stick to more traditional, teacher-centered approaches. But you
strongly believe in the effectiveness of cooperative learning for goals you
value as a teacher. Cooperative learning should be a part of every beginning teacher's repertoire. Inexperienced teachers, however, should be careful and should know about the difficulties involved in implementing cooperative learning in some settings. Cooperative learning is considered as an effective means to increase positive student social behavior and to correct many of the social injustices that exist in our society. It creates a learning environment that is characterized with democratic processes in which students assume active roles and take responsibility for their own learning.
Cooperative learning is a very important issue in teaching that helps to improve the social skills of the students and let them feel that they are all the same. They will learn how to be more interactive and democratic while acting with their friends or other people and how to be acceptable, receptive learners not only productive ones. But before any thing, the teacher should teach them carefully the skills of cooperative learning and then let them practice it so they will succeed when they know how to apply it.
ReplyDeleteUsing cooperative learning in the classroom has positive effects on academic achievement, relationships, development of English proficiency, liking of self , attitudes toward school and teachers, and others.
ReplyDeletecooperative learning should always include various learning activities in order for it to be effective, using the same activity even within the framework of cooperative learning is going to be boring for the students because there has to be variety in the activities that a teacher does for her students. Neither does this mean that we should use cooperative learning alone, because it may be efficient but sometimes it's not feasible.
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