What are some Cooperative Learning Approaches?
To be successful, cooperative learning tasks are designed by teachers so that students are required to depend on one another to complete the assigned tasks and to master content and skills. There are many cooperative learning approaches that are designed to achieve different objectives. When these approaches are used frequently and correctly, students will acquire the positive results of cooperative learning. Several cooperative learning approaches are described below. • Jigsaw – Each student, in a four to five member team, is given information for only one part of the learning activity. However, each student needs to know all information to be successful. Students work cooperatively in two different teams, their original team and an expert team. All students in the expert team seek the same information, study it, and decide how best to teach it to their peers in the original team. After this is accomplished, students return to their original teams to teach their portion of the lesson
