Definition

Students work together to accomplish shared learning goals.

Why?

• Student achievement
  • Acquire skills to cooperate effectively
  • Acquire skills/knowledge about target concept
  • Use knowledge from a target concept

• Empathy and inclusion
  • Sense of belonging

• Students learn by
  • explaining elaborately to others
  • listening to others

How to?

Do

• Team projects (collaborative, but not necessarily cooperative)

• Cooperative learning: (easier to design for close-ended tasks)
  • Positive interdependence
    • depend on each other
    • both give and take
  • Individual accountability
    • accountable for their actions
    • for the shared learning objective
    • Peer-evaluation in group is a way

• Scaffolding of positive interdependence
  • Joint rewards
  • Divided resources
  • Complementary roles

• Interteaching (related: Guided discovery)

• Team-based learning
  • Jigsaw activity

• Think-pair-share (related: Guided discovery)

Do NOT

• individual tutoring, one-way help