What is cooperative learning?

Cooperation is working together in group to get the shared goals. The idea of cooperative learning is organizing students into small groups to make them work together and try to maximize both individual and group learning. It means all group members share a common fate.

Why Use Cooperative Learning?

Students' learning goals may be structured to promote cooperative, competitive, or individualistic efforts. Compare with cooperative situation, competitive situation makes students working against each other, at the end only a few can get the final goal. The result is that students either work hard, or they take it easy because they do not believe they have a chance to win. Only in coorperation there is a positive interdependence among goal achievements.

What Makes Cooperative Groups Work?

1, the first step is to build a positive interdependence in group.

2, the second step is to promote the interaction between group members.

3, the third step is to make students recognize the individual and group accountability.

4, the forth step is to teach students the interpersonal and group-working skills.

5, the last step is start to work in group with all of the required elements and try to maximize their result.