Cooperative learning is an effective teaching strategy that promotes engagement by having students work in small, diverse groups where all members participate academically and socially. This method contrasts with traditional and group work, as it ensures no student remains passive and develops essential life skills. Various activities and tools, such as think-pair-share and numbered heads, are outlined to facilitate cooperative learning in the classroom.

1. COOPERATIVE LEARNING
INSIDE THE CLASSROOM
SESSION 5
When 4 heads are better
than one

2. WHAT IS
COOPERATIVE
LEARNING?
Cooperative
learning is a
successful
teaching strategy
in which small
teams, each with
students of
different levels of
ability, use a
variety
of learning activitie
s to improve their
understanding of a
subject.

4. LET’S LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE
TRADITIONAL
● Teacher asks
question
● Think time
● Student(s) raise
hands
● Teacher calls on
student to answer
● One student answers
● Teacher responds !
Dialogue between two
people – what are the
rest of the class
doing? How many are
actually actively
involved?
● How do the rest of
class feel?
GROUP WORK
● Teacher sets task
● The more
confident/intelligent/bo
ssy child will take over
task
● Less
confident/unmotivated
children will sit back
● Hogs complete work
and make progress
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
● Lessons are designed such that all
members of each team participate
● Students participate equally both
socially and academically.
● No passive students, “It’s all about
Engagement”.
● The ability of pupils to work with
others is an
important life skill.
● Working with others actually
improves
understanding, stretching the high
ability and lower ability pupils alike.

6. TOOLS

7. 1 2
3 4
NUMBERED CARD / PAPER

8. TIMER

9. NOW YOU ARE READY FOR
TO WORK!

10. RECORD
A piece of paper
Worksheets
Notebook

11. LET’S TRY AN ACTIVITY
Lesson: Nouns - Animals
Objective: To be able to name animals
Procedure:
1. List down examples of animals using it’s ENGLISH name
2. Students can not repeat the same name of the animals
3. We will start from Student #1 then 2, then 3 and then 4.
4. The student holding the paper should pass the list to the next
person whenever I say the word PASS.
5. When I say STOP. We all stop writing and put our hands on our lap.

12. 1SPELLING CHECKER
2REPEAT CHECKER
3LITTLE TEACHER
4REPORTER

13. 21ST CENTURY LEARNING

14. ACTIVITIES
Think-Pair-Share

15. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?
Ask them to listen first to the instruction.
 Include a signal when they will start the activity
 Use transition words when giving instruction
Set time limit
 Use visual signal of the time lapsed
 Give them a signal when to go to the next part of the activity
Rotate the roles

16. HOLEY SHIRT
Pairs
1 and 2
3 and 4
Instructions:
1. Look at the picture carefully.
2. Read the question
3. Think about your answer for 30 seconds
4. After 30 seconds, I will ask you to share your answer with your
partner and explain how you got your answer in 30 seconds.
5. Partners 1 and 3 will share first, then 2 and 4

19. SOCIAL STUDIES
THINK
Who are the
members of your
family?
PAIR
1 and 2
3 and 4
SHARE
Today all number
2 will share what
they learned

20. STAND - PAIR - SHARE
●Stand up
●Walk around room
●On teacher’s indication – find a partner (Pair)
 Person A talks first – Person B listens
 Person B summarizes what person A has said
●Swap roles
●Teacher asks for feedback

21. WORLD’S FAMILY
Video: The World Family
Questions to think about
What did you SEE in the video?
How did you FEEL while watching the video?
What did you LEARN from the video?

22. INSTANT STAR
(STUDENTS ARE RANDOMLY CALLED TO STAND AND SHARE WITH THEIR
TEAMMATES.)
1. Teacher asks a question.
2. Teacher calls for think time.
3. Teacher randomly calls a number.
4. The student on each team with that number stands and shares
her/his thought or answer with teammates.
5. For high consensus questions, teammates praise or coach, if
needed. For low consensus question, teammates praise the thinking
that went into the answer.

23. NUMBERED HEADS
•Each student in the team has a number
•Students work individually to solve a problem / answer a question.
(Use white boards or paper)
•They work individually to begin with and then share their answer
with the group and agree a group response
•Teacher selects a student to feedback to the rest of the class (e.g. –
all number 3s stand up and tell me….)
•This student stands up and shares with the whole class

24. FAN N PICK
● Students are given a set of prepared cards on a topic (these can be
prepared by the teacher or the students). On each card is a question
and an answer
● Partner A fans the cards
● Partner B chooses a card
● Partner B reads the card to Partner A
● If Partner A does not know the answer, Partner B coaches them to
reach the answer.
● Partner B praises Partner A and then roles are reversed