Cooperative Learning
I write a bit in my upcoming book on teaching English Language Learners how I use cooperative learning groups in class.
I’ve just read a blog post that provides a good summary of the advantages of cooperative learning. I’d strongly encourage you to go to The Four Essential Drives That Every Creative Needs and read the complete post, and I’m just going to share a small portion here. It provides this summary from a lengthier research paper titledCooperative Learning And Social Interdependence Theory by David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson.
Here is Cath Duncan’s summary of the benefits of cooperative learning:
* Willingness to take on difficult tasks and persist, despite difficulties, in working toward goal accomplishment. In addition, there is intrinsic motivation, high expectations for success, high incentive to achieve based on mutual benefit, high epistemic curiosity and continuing interest in learning, and high commitment to achieve.
* Long-term retention of what is learned.
* Higher-level reasoning, critical thinking, and meta-cognitive thought. Cooperative learning promotes a greater use of higher level reasoning strategies, moral reasoning strategies, insight and critical thinking than do competitive or individualistic learning strategies.
* Creative thinking. In cooperative groups, members more frequently generate new ideas, strategies, and
I’ve just read a blog post that provides a good summary of the advantages of cooperative learning. I’d strongly encourage you to go to The Four Essential Drives That Every Creative Needs and read the complete post, and I’m just going to share a small portion here. It provides this summary from a lengthier research paper titledCooperative Learning And Social Interdependence Theory by David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson.
Here is Cath Duncan’s summary of the benefits of cooperative learning:
* Willingness to take on difficult tasks and persist, despite difficulties, in working toward goal accomplishment. In addition, there is intrinsic motivation, high expectations for success, high incentive to achieve based on mutual benefit, high epistemic curiosity and continuing interest in learning, and high commitment to achieve.
* Long-term retention of what is learned.
* Higher-level reasoning, critical thinking, and meta-cognitive thought. Cooperative learning promotes a greater use of higher level reasoning strategies, moral reasoning strategies, insight and critical thinking than do competitive or individualistic learning strategies.
* Creative thinking. In cooperative groups, members more frequently generate new ideas, strategies, and
