Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy where students work in small, heterogeneous groups to help one another master academic content. For cooperative learning to be effective, groups must be small (2-6 students), meet criteria like positive interdependence and individual accountability, and use strategies such as tutoring to ensure all students understand the material. Research shows cooperative learning leads to higher achievement, stronger self-esteem, greater motivation to learn, and more acceptance of diversity compared to traditional instructional approaches.

1. Ero Dela Vega
III-21 BSE Biology

2. Cooperative Learning
Considered a new development in effective teaching
Students work on activities in small, heterogeneous groups,
and they receive rewards or recognition based on the overall
group performance.
Cooperative learning differs from traditional approaches in
that students depend on one another and work together to
reach shared goals

3. • According to researchers,
Cooperative Learning groups
work less when they meet
following criteria:

4. Group should be heterogeneous, and , at least at the
beginning, they should be small, limited to two to six
members.
Since face-to-face interactions is important, the
groups should be circular to permit easy
conversation.

5. There must be genuine feeling of positive interdependence
among group members, a sense that the group sinks or
swims together. This can be accomplished through a
shared group goal, shared division of labor, or shared
materials.

6. Robert Slavin
Pioneer of cooperative
learning techniques,
developed student team
learning methods in
which a team’s work is
not completed until all
students on the team
understand the material
being studied.

7. Student team learning is to succeed when….
Students tutor one another so that everyone can
succeed on individual quizzes, and each member of
the group is accountable for learning.
Students contribute to their teams by improving prior
scores or performance, it does not matter whether the
student is a high, average, or low achiever.

8. Increased achievement by an individual student at
any level contributes to the overall performance of
the group , resulting in equal opportunity.

9. Growth results from Cooperative
Learning:
Students taught within this structure make higher
achievement gains.
Students who participate in cooperative learning have
a higher levels of self-esteem and greater motivation to
learn.

10. Students have a stronger sense that classmates
have a positive regard to one another.
A particularly important finding is that there is
acceptance of students from different racial and
ethnic backgrounds when a cooperative learning
structure is implemented in the classroom.

11. Some Cooperative Learning
Strategies:
Roundtable
Round robin
Write around
Number Heads Together
Team Jigsaw
Tea Party