How is cooperative learning structured in the PowerTeaching model?
Cooperative learning is often negatively portrayed as resulting in team grades, asking one child to do the work for four, or turning control of the classroom over to the students. In PowerTeaching, cooperative learning means none of these things. Instead students work together toward a common learning goal, but they are held individually accountable for their own learning. Here, too, the research is unequivocal: Structuring opportunities for team members to help prepare every member to achieve success on the Lesson Cycle Assessment and rewarding teams for their efforts is the most effective cooperative-learning model.
