Cooperative learning is the process of dividing students’ classes into small groups so that they can discover a new concept together and help each other learn.
To put it simply, the most common form of cooperative learning is to form groups of students to work together and learn together and help each other. Cooperative learning can also help us learn social skills, such as how to make friends or how to deal with interpersonal relationships.
The advantage of cooperative learning is that, due to the different thoughts and individual differences of each person, many ideas that you can’t think of may be thought of by others or ideas that you can think of by others can help you improve. Exchanging different points of view can also help you develop more divergent thinking and judgment. Everyone should work hard as always in the process of cooperative learning. It is unfair to avoid or let others share the burden just because someone can help you. So in their academic careers, many students may face unfair treatment in groups.
Cooperative learning sounds like easier or more simply, but I think it gives students more pressure, because of the cooperative learning is not only represents a person’s score, you will also affect your work team score, in order not to let the team members feel sad, we should be more efforts.
“At its core, CTE is all about skills-based learning.
That philosophy embraces hands-on learning, which lends itself well to cooperative learning. There’s no better example of cooperative learning than students working in groups to accomplish a physical task.
That task could be demonstrating CPR on a dummy for a health science course. It could be assembling a strut for a stress test in an architecture class. You could even go so far as to let a group of students diagnose a problem in a car engine if they’re on the automotive pathway.
If anything, CTE gives you more opportunities than a traditional classroom setting to embrace cooperative learning since you can use hands-on practice.
Still, that doesn’t mean you should design every single class period to revolve around cooperative learning.
You can still lecture and provide independent study materials for introductory concepts. Then, when it gets to the point of practice and hands-on learning, you can turn students loose into groups.”
References:
Zook, C. (n.d.). What Is Cooperative Learning and How Does It Work? Digital Curriculum for CTE & Elective Teachers. https://www.aeseducation.com/blog/what-is-cooperative-learning-and-how-does-it-work.
