Cooperative Learning

What is Cooperative learning?

Cooperative learning is a learning method that has the following characteristics:
1. Students are separated into a small group, each group contains three to four members.
2. Students are positively interdependent.
3. Students need to cooperative to accomplish their common tasks or learning activities.
4. Students are individually responsible for their work and learning.

Why choosing Cooperative learning?

If you are wondering how cooperative learning works, the video below should help you to understand.

Cooperative learning separate classes into a different group, each group should contain high achievers and low achievers. Cooperative learning is all about Student Center Learning, which gives students an opportunity to actively think, discuss, and practice, making the lecture less dependent on teachers’ direct teaching. In the process of cooperative learning, every student is not only responsible for their own learning, but also for their groupmates’. Therefore, Cooperative learning has the below Advantages:
1. Correctly treat the differences between students in class.
In the traditional classes, each student has different performances on different subjects. Cooperative learning uses the strategy of dividing students by their differences, letting them discover their own strengths and helping them to optimize their strengths.
2. Motivate students.
traditional classes are often focused on teachers’ lectures, students are passively receiving knowledge from the teachers, which makes students bored and less willing to ask questions. Cooperative learning changes the format of learning, students are now more actively contribute to learning.

How does Cooperative Learning Align with my pod’s learning blueprint?

My pod designed a learning blueprint for those who want to learn Cantonese. During the process of designing our blueprints, we find out that the easiest way to language a second language is to practice more often, not only by writing and reading but also speaking and listening. And we think that separating students into different groups can make the course more effective. In that way, teachers have more times to observe students’ learning process and thus have more time to take extra care of the students needed.