Cooperative learning

 

Hello everyone, this is my third blog post. It is a great pleasure that I have again the opportunity to talk about another topic of this subject. Last lecture we treated a very interesting topic that is surely going to help us as future teachers. It is cooperative learning. Let’s go further and talk more in details about it. At the beginning I wanted to emphasize that when I read about this topic I immediately found it important and now I can say with a complete conviction that cooperative learning can be a full package regarding a successful teaching. Why do I make a such strong claim? The answer is simple my dears, when you use this teaching strategy and implement it in the right way during your career as a teacher, the chances to get good results are really high because this strategy motivates your learners not only to acquire for themselves what is explained in class, but also encourages them to help their classmates. In fact one of the main purposes of the cooperative learning is that everything mentioned, written or discussed has to be understood by everyone. In the other hand, the word cooperative itself gives us the panorama of a harmony and a successful collaboration of each class member, because this strategy includes different activities, students even they do not have the same level they feel involved, they take part actively in learning process and so on. Therefore some other characteristic  are also the small teams and work in groups which helps students to improve their academic skills, they extend their critical thinking and of course by interacting and collaborating with each other, consequently their social skills should be better . By the way, just to be clear, when I say work in groups I do not refer traditional groups that are usually bad structured, but group works that are carefully prepared, planned and monitored by an observer ,teacher in this case.  In addition ,in this strategy we find instructional models and structures that are well designed, which teachers can adopt and adapt, to help the group work operate more effectively by creating an environment for interactive learning. Furthermore what really impressed me a lot it was also the friendly environment that is usually created or the fact that everyone feels special.  I really suggest every teacher in the world to use this effective strategy.

Thank you!