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Elements of Cooperative Learning

The document outlines the essential elements of cooperative learning, emphasizing positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction, individual and group accountability, interpersonal skills, and group processing. It highlights the importance of students working together towards mutual goals, supporting each other, and developing necessary social skills. Additionally, it stresses the need for structured accountability to ensure both individual contributions and group success.

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Elements of Cooperative Learning

The document outlines the essential elements of cooperative learning, emphasizing positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction, individual and group accountability, interpersonal skills, and group processing. It highlights the importance of students working together towards mutual goals, supporting each other, and developing necessary social skills. Additionally, it stresses the need for structured accountability to ensure both individual contributions and group success.

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Elements of Cooperative Learning

1. Positive Interdependence (Most important element)


Students:
• Believe their role is required and indispensable for group success
They sink or swim together.
• Have mutual goals and tasks
• Share materials/resources
• Recognize team accomplishments

2. Face-to-Face Interaction (provides academic and personal support system)


Students:
• Promote each other’s success by sharing resources/materials
• Support each others efforts by encouraging and applauding each other’s efforts
• Orally explain how to solve problems
• Teach one’s knowledge to others
• Check for understanding
• Discuss concepts being learned
• Connect present with past learning

3. Individual and Group Accountability (must be structured into lessons)


Individual Accountability:
• Contribute his/her share of the work (i.e. color code individual work)
• Assess performance of each member and results are used to determine who needs more
assistance, support, and encouragement in learning.
• Share or demonstrate learning (i.e. – students paraphrase, turn in own answers)
• Assign and grade segments of learning.
Group Accountability:
• Achieve goals of group
• Don’t give group grades

4. Interpersonal and Small Group Skills


Teachers teach and demonstrate skills in:
• Leadership
• Decision-making
• Conflict resolution
• Communication
• Trust-building
• Sharing

5. Group Processing
Members:
• Analyze how well members are using social skills
• Make decisions about what behaviors to continue or change

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