This document discusses cooperative learning, which is a teaching strategy that promotes productive learning among students in a group. It defines cooperative learning as students interacting and learning together in small groups. The benefits of cooperative learning include fostering mutual responsibility and research showing its effectiveness. It lists the five elements of cooperative learning as positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction, individual and group accountability, interpersonal skills, and group self-evaluation. Finally, it provides examples of classroom activities that use cooperative learning techniques like jigsaw, think-pair-share, and numbered heads together.