Introduction
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Cooperative learning has 5 elements. What are those elements?
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Task
In order to ensure collaborative learning, you should do these tasks.
1. Assigning students to mixed-ability teams.
2. Establishing pisitive interdependence.
3. Teaching cooperative social skills
4. Insuring individual accountability, and
5. Helping groups process information.
Process
To reap the benifits of collaborative learning, students need to work together in ways that depend on everyone's understanding.
Step 1
Group Rules
-Facilitator
-Team Captain
-Resource Monitor
-Recorder
Step2
Norms
-Stay focus
-Ask for help and give help
-Helping is not telling
-Everyone gets a turn
-Give reasons for an idea
-Listen to different ideas
Step 3
Routine
-Group Questions
-Quickstart
-Individual think time
-Sentence Starters
Step 4
Accountability
-Trough individual students
-Self evaluation
-Checkpoints, and
-Shuffle Quizzes
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Evaluation
| Category | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Contribution to group goal Score: ______ |
Consistently and actively works toward group goals, willingly accepts and fulfills individual role with in the group. | Work toward group goals without occasional prompting, accept and fulfills individual role within the group. | Works toward group goals with occasional prompting. | Work toward goals only when prompted. |
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Consideration of others Score: ______ |
Shows sensitivity to the feelings and learning needs of others, values the knowledge, opinion and skills of all group members. | Shows and express sensitivity to the feelings of others, encourage the participation of others. | Show sensitivity to feeling of other. | Needs occasional reminders to be sensitive to the feelings of others. |
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Contribution of knowledge Score:_______ |
Consistently and actively contributes knowledge, opinions , and skills without prompting or reminding. | Contributes knowledge opinions, and skills without prompting or reminding. | Contributes skills information to the group with occasional prompting and reminding. | Contributes information to the group only when prompted. |
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Working and showing with others Score:_______ |
helps the group identify necessary changes and encourages group action gor change, does assigned work without reminders. |
Willingly participate in needed changes usually does the assigned work and rarely needs reminding. |
Participateneeded changes with occasional prompting, often needs reminding to the assigned work. | Participate in needed changes when prompted and encouraged, always or often relies on other to work. |
| Total overall Score:______ | comments: |
Conclusion
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Cooperative or collaborative learning is learning by small groups of students who work together in a common learning task. It is often also called group learning.
The creativity of the techer will have to respond to the situation, and so cooperative learning will likely be the answer to the implementation of IT.
Advantages of Cooperative Learning
- Encourages active learning, while motivating students.
- Increase academic performance.
- Promote literacy and language skills.
- Improve teachers effectiveness. In addition, there are studies with show that cooperative learning enhances.
- Personal and social development among students.
- Self-steem
- Social relations between racially and culturally different students.
It is also important for the teacher limits learning group cluster (six is the ideal number in a group) so there can be closer involvement in thinking and learning.
"We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more"
-Bill Clinton
Credits
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This page is designed for students in order to know the importance of collaborative learning with the computer including the 5 elements and the benefits of collaborative learning.