English Learning Strategies

2. 4th Group

3. Point of Tile’s
 Definition of Cooperative Learning
 Implementing Cooperative Learning in The Class
 Promoting positive interdependence
 Help students develop teamwork skills
 General Suggestions
 Part of Questions
 Summary

4. What is Cooperative Learning?
 It’s a collection of teaching strategies that focuses around
small groups that complete a single task and promotes
social skills and requires group members to be
accountable.

5. 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.

6. Five Basic Elements of Cooperative Learning
1. Positive Interdependence
2. Individual Accountability
3. Face-To-Face Interaction
4. Appropriate use of collaborative skills
5. Group Processing

7. Is it safe???
 How to Implementing
Cooperative Learning
in the Class??

8. Promoting positive interdepen
dence
 Assign different roles to team members
 Use Jigsaw to set up specialized expertise within each team
 Give a bonus on tests
 Report is part of the team project

9. Assign the students roles
 Everyone in a group will help with creating a finished
product/answer, but everyone should also have a
special role that is vital to completing the task

10. Jigsaw
 Each student (or group) learns about a topic (or part of
a topic)
 It is then each student (or groups) job to teach
everyone else in the class about their topic
 When you have to teach about something your brain is
forced to critically think about it so you can present it
to others

11. Help students develop team
work skills
 Establish team policies and expectations
 Keep groups intact for at least a month
 Provide for periodic self-assessment of team functioning
 Give students tools for managing conflict
 Use crisis clinics to equip students to deal with difficult team

12. General Suggestions
 Start small and build
 At the start of the course, explain to students what you’re doing, why you’re
doing it, and what’s in it for them
 Make team assignments more challenging than traditional individual
assignments
 Don’t curve course grades
 Conduct a midterm assessment to find out how students feel about teamwork
 Expect initial resistance from students

13. Part of Questions !

14. SUMMARY
 Cooperative learning refers to work done by student teams producing a
product of some sort (such as a set of problem solutions, a laboratory or
project report, or the design of a product or a process), under conditions
that satisfy five criteria: (1) positive interdependence, (2) individual accou
-ntability, (3) face-toface interaction for at least part of the work, (4) appr-
opriate use of interpersonal skills, and (5) regular self-assessment of team
functioning

15. Thank You !