Cooperative Project

Centre Educatiu Jacint Verdaguer

Infantil, Primary & Secondary Education

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Cooperative learning technique

Methodology

Students’ task

Teachers’ task

Assessment

Aspects to bear in mind

Didactic justification

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Cooperative learning technique

• Interdependence among the students

• Importance of the task of each member of the team

• Useful for knowledge areas as the contents can be fragmented

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Methodology

• Formation of the base teams

• Set the sections of the didactic sequence

• Experts’ groups task

• Return to the base team

Alternation between the base and the experts teams

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Base teams

Experts groups

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Students’ Task

Experts Group

• Search for information in different sources

• Interchange and join the information

• Prepare a framework document

• Make an outline or draw a mind map

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Students’ task

Learning between equalsTutor’s task

• Summarize the key aspects of the information they have been working on

• Pass these key aspects to the teacher and help him/her to understand them

Teacher’s task

• Collaborate with the tutor in the search of information

• Take notes of the information worked with the tutor

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Students’ task

Base Team

• Transfer the information of each expert: explanation through the mind map

• Take notes on the part of the members of the team

• Oral presentation of the topic

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Students’ task

Base team

Carrying out tasks that reinforce and help to assimilate the contents that have been worked on

Groupwork

• Preparation and joint of the oral presentation of the topic

Individual work

• Do exercises (in paper support)

• Do learning activities and selfassessment: use of the Intranet

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Teachers’ task

Experts group

• Guide and advise in the search of information, clear concepts and vocabulary aspects ...

• Help to prepare summaries, mind maps

• Look at the performance of the members of the group: atmosphere, attitude ...

• Ask questions of the section worked on

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Teachers’ task

Base team

• Go on the guidance and support task

• Make sure that all the aspects of the didactic sequence are worked on

• Look at the performance of the members of the group

• Ask questions about the topic

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Evaluation

Written tests• Group test

• Individual final test

Selfassessment• Individual assessment of the

members of the group

Attitude assessment

Experts group• Research activity, summary,

mind map, oral questions and diary

Base team• Explanation, taking notes,

presentation, oral questions and selfassessment activities (Hot Potatoes)

• Oral presentation of the topic

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Aspects to bear in mind

Personal task

• Foresee and make easy – motivate – the participation of the members of the different groups

• Guarantee the transfer of information, not only among the different members of the group but also among the tutors- teachers

Technical view

• Foresee unwished situations due to the lack of Internet connection (arrange materials in paper support just in case)

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Didactic justification • The good adjustment of this technique to the area

• It makes easier to treat the diversity in the groups

• It makes pairwork (tutorial between equals) easier

• It allows to cover specific absences

• The pressure that the members of the group exert is a relevant element of motivation

• It facilitates the exchange and the distribution of tasks and responsibilities

• It allows to share strategies and transfer information and knowledge

Selfassessment guideline