Group work or collaborative learning

Group work or collaborative learning
 This model was developed to achieve at least three important instructional goals: academic achievement, acceptance of diversity and social skill development.
 One of the founders of cooperative learning, Slavin (1996) believes the group focus can change norms of youth culture and make it more acceptable to excel in academic learning tasks.
 Important effect is a wider acceptance of people who are different by virtue of their race, social class, ability or disability.
 Cooperative learning is to teach the students skills of cooperation and collaboration

Effects of group work
 The cooperative behavior is generated from the corporative learning, both verbal and non-verbal than whole class teaching. The students display less competitive behaviors and more cross Ethnic Corporation.
 Students with less ability learn more by working alongside those who have greater abilities and they later benefit from the process of serving as tutors to their lesser able peers.
 Humans learn from their experiences and strive participation in small groups helping students to learn important social skills while simultaneously developing academic skills and democratic attitudes.

Planning tasks for teachers
Choose an appropriate content
 Form student teams
 Develop materials
 Plan for orientating students to tasks and roles
 Plan for the use and space.

Conducting cooperative learning sessions
 There are six phases they include
 Clarify aims and establish set.
 Present information verbally or in text
 Organize students in study teams
 Assists team work and study
 Test on the materials
 Proved recognition.

Arends, R. I. (2001). Learning to teach. (5th Eds). Singapore: McGraw-Hill.