Cooperative

Learning
:uses in social studies
What is cooperative
Learning?
- is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each
with students of different levels of ability, use a variety
of learning activities to improve their understanding of a
subject.
 What Does a Cooperative
Model
Look Like?
Students work cooperatively compared with traditional models where
individuals are only looking out for themselves.

Team members are responsible for their own individual learning as well as
for their teammates learning.

Teams are made up of high, medium and low academic achieving students.

Teams are heterogeneous in gender, race, culture and socioeconomic

status.
Five Elements of
Cooperative Learning
 Five Elements Of
Cooperative learning
1.Positive Interdependence

2.Individual and Group Accountability

3.Interpersonal and Small-Group

Skills

4.Face to Face Promotive Interaction

5.Group Processing (Reflection)

 Essentials of EFFECTIVE Cooperative
Learning Groups
Participati
on
Each team member should
participate in the decision
making process

Trust
Each team member should
trust that other team
members will be contributing
Communicati
to the group on
Each team member should
give constructive feedback
 Planning for Cooperative
LearningChoose an
approach
Choose Plan for the use
appropriate of time and
content space
Product
Form student Core Plan for
teams orienting
students to
Develop tasks and roles
materials
 Proposal Background
Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)
-Students in heterogeneous groups of four to five members use study devices to master academic material and then
help each other learn the material through tutoring, quizzing and team discussions.

Group Investigation
- The most complex cooperative learning approach and most difficult to implement. Students are involved in planning
the group topics as well as the ways in which they will proceed with their investigations.

The Structural Approach

- The teacher poses a question to the entire class and students provide answers by raising their hands and are called
on with the goal of increasing student acquisition of academic content and teaching social skills.

Think-Pair-Share
- The teacher poses a question to the entire class and the students spend a moment thinking alone about their
answer.
Numbered Heads Together
- The teacher has groups of three to five members number off so that each member has a different number. The
teacher asks either a very specific or very broad question, depending on the subject matter.
What children
can do
together
today, they
can do alone
tomorrow.
(LeV
Vygotsky,
1962)
Thank you!