Sunday, September 13, 2015

Cooperative Learning

Teaching Geography and Cooperative Learning 

 What is Cooperative Learning? 

  • Promotes collaboration and gets rid of competition
  • Students become invested in classmates' learning as well as their own 
  • Not just "group work"
5 Components/Elements: 
  1. Positive Interdependence
  2. Face-to-face interaction 
  3. Individual accountability
  4. Interpersonal and small group skills
  5. Group processing 
Different activities to promote Cooperative Learning: 
  • Think-Pair-Share
  • Inside/Outside Circles
  • Jigsaw
  • Four corners
  • Three-step interview
  • Place mat
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1 comment:

  1. Jennifer LombardiSeptember 14, 2015 at 5:03 PM

    I liked how you formatted your post
    You went over key elements of cooperative learning
    I liked how you incorporated the different activities to promote cooperative learning
    I wish you would have been a little more descriptive

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