Education today is more than even a question of cooperation. Give your students a voice by empowering them with diverse strategies where cooperation becomes a strategic alternative to competition. This workshop sets its aim to provide synergy in teaching and learning for better academic results of the students. A therapy to cure the secretive and score oriented approach towards education. The teachers will learn various strategies to inculcate cooperative learning and teaching to bring qualitative competition.

2. Empowering students :From Competition
to Cooperation
TEACHERS SEMINAR
“Teach Today For Tomorrow
2015”

3. Content
• Objectives
• The pros and cons of both competition
and cooperation
• Shift from competition to cooperation –A
challenge!
• Cooperative strategies Jigsaw and STAD

4. Objectives of the workshop
By the end of session the participants will be
able to:
•differentiate between cooperative and competitive
approaches towards learning
•develop strategies (Jigsaw & STAD)to empower the
students with modified perspective towards competition

5. What is competition?
COOPERATION COMPETITION CONFLICT

6. From competition to
cooperation…

7. Activity: Competition or Cooperation
A 5 minutes Challenge!
•Read the given strips and relate the four stages in the
story with the real classroom situations which you have
experienced with your students.
•Which situation do you prefer for the real learning and
empowerment of students.

8. Competition (Pros and cons)

9. Cooperation (Pros ands cons)

10. How to solve such questions?
Why to shift from competition to cooperation
when:
•the students are unwilling or fail to cooperate?
• it is difficult to assess the individual’s competency in
cooperative learning?
•extrinsic motivation is more attractive than the intrinsic
one?
•helping others might well mean less points and lower
grades for them?
•we ask students to cooperate but then reward them
competitively. (Pradox)

11. Cooperative vs. Competitive
Cooperative activities (public
knowledge)
Competitive activities (private)
• encourage children play with one
another. ...
• allow everybody to win and succeed.
• eliminate fear of failure. ...
• do not allow for elimination. ...
• are fun and supportive. ...
• build feeling of worth. ...
• increase self-esteem. ..
• encourage problem solving and
decision making
• encourage children to play against
one another. ...
• allow only half or one of the group to
win. ...
• equate loss with failure. ...
• have frequent elimination.
• …rules and strategies often
prescribed ...are not always fun and
supportive!

12. Some cooperative learning Techniques

13. How to go……….?!

14. Jigsaw in Ten Easy
Steps!
STEP ONE
•Divide students into 5- or 6-person jigsaw groups
STEP TWO
•Appoint one student from each group as the
leader.
STEP THREE
•Divide the day’s lesson into 5-6 segments
•STEP FOUR
•Assign each student to learn one segment.
•STEP FIVE
•Give students time to read over their segment at
least twice and become familiar with it.
STEP SIX
•Form temporary “expert groups” by having one
student from each jigsaw group join other students
assigned to the same segment.
STEP SEVEN
•Bring the students back into their jigsaw groups.
STEP EIGHT
•Ask each student to present her or his segment to
the group.
STEP NINE
•Float from group to group, observing the process.
STEP TEN
•At the end of the session, give a quiz on the
material.

15. Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD)

16. Activity#3: Recap through STAD
• Wild wind blows!!!
• New teams of 4 or 5 members
• Quiz based on STAD Strategy:
• Answer the quiz questions individually and contribute to the team
scores.

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for your listening and interest.