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Cooperative Learning

Trudie Hughes

Definition of Cooperative Learning

An instructional arrangement in which small groups or teams of students work together to achieve team success in a manner that promotes the students’ responsibility for their own learning as well as the learning of others (Mercer & Mercer, 2001).

Description of Cooperative Learning

Provides students with an opportunity to practice skills or learn content presented by the teacher.

Emphasizes team goals, and team success only if each individual learns.

Conducive for creating successful inclusive experiences with students with disabilities.

Methods of Cooperative Learning

Student Learning Teams (SLT) (Slavin, 1991)

Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) (Slavin, 1978, 1986)

Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT) (DeVries & Slavin, 1978; Slavin, 1986)

Full Option Science System (FOSS) (Britannica, 1991)

Student Learning Teams (SLT)

Team goals are achieved when each member achieves selected academic objectives.

Emphasizes: team reward, individual accountability, and equal opportunities for success.

Team rewards are earned when a team achieves at or above a predetermined criterion level.

Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD)

Heterogeneous group of four students are assigned to a team.

Students work together to ensure all students have mastered the lesson after initial teacher led instruction.

Students take individual quizzes without peer assistance.

Quiz scores are compared to past averages, points are awarded based on progress from past performance.

STAD Format Teach: Present Lesson Team Study: Students work on

worksheets in their teams to master the material

Tests: Students take individual quizzes or other assessments

Team Recognition: Team scores are computed on the basis of team members’ scores, and certificates, a class newsletter, or a bulletin board recognizes high-scoring teams

Teams-Games-Tournament Same procedures as STAD on initial

instruction and heterogeneous groups. Quizzes are replaced with weekly

tournaments. Students can compete with players from

another team to earn points. Students compete at three-member

tournament tables with others who have similar skill levels on target skills.

Jigsaw Students are assigned to 6 member team Academic material has been broken down

into sections Each team member reads his/her section

of the material Members of different teams who have

studied the same sections meet in expert groups to discuss their sections.

Students return to their teams and take turns teaching their teammates about their sections

Jigsaw II Students work in 4-5 member teams All students read the same common text, such

as a book chapter Each student receives a topic on which to

become an expert Students with the same topics meet in expert

groups to discuss Students return to their teams to teach what

they have learned to their teammates Students take individual quizzes, which result in

a team score

Full Option Science System (FOSS)

Four students work together and take turns with different roles to complete a particular science activity.

Reader Recorder Getter Starter

Reader Reads all print instructions. Ensures that all students in the

group understand the task. Summarizes the activity for the

group.

Recorder Records all data: observations,

predictions, and estimations. Uses chart and graph paper.

Getter Responsible for getting all materials

and returning all materials after activity is completed.

Starter Begins the manipulations of the

materials. Supervises the assembly of

materials. Ensures that all group members

participate.

Classwide Peer Tutoring Whole class activity which

emphasizes reciprocal tutoring, frequent opportunities to respond, and immediate feedback.

Peer Tutoring Classwide Peer Tutoring – Juniper

Gardens Children’s Project (Delquadri, Greenwood, Whorton, Carta, & Hall, 1986).

Peer Assisted Learning Strategies – George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University (Fuchs, Mathes, & Fuchs, 1993).

Types of Peer Tutoring Cross-age tutoring: the tutor is

several years older than the student being taught

Same-age tutoring: student tutors a classmate

Juniper Gardens Project (JGP)

Designed to help students with mild disabilities improve their basic skills.

Integrated behavior management and direct instruction procedure.

Based on reciprocal peer tutoring and group-oriented reinforcement contingencies.

JGP Cont. Peers are used to supervise

responding and practice. Game format is used that includes

points and competing teams. Weekly evaluation plan ensures

gains in individual and class progress.

JGP Features Each student tutors for 10 minutes and

then receives 10 minutes of tutoring. Systematic procedures for dividing class

into two heterogeneous teams. During sessions, the teacher monitors

student’s behavior and awards points for good tutoring behavior.

Individual and team points are displayed. On Friday the teacher conducts a more

intensive assessment of each student’s progress.

Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS)

Incorporates strategy-based reading practice.

Partner reading: students take turns reading aloud, correcting errors, and retelling what they read.

Paragraph shrinking: students take turns reading paragraph aloud, correcting errors, and stating main idea.

PALS Cont. Prediction relay: students take turns

predicting what happens next, reading the next passage aloud, correcting errors, verifying predictions, summarizing the text, and making more predictions.