Cooperative Learning (CL)

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Cooperative learning is a teaching and learning strategy that emphasizes the attitudes or behavior in work or assist in among the regular cooperation structure within the group, which consists of two or more people.

Definition cooperative learning

Students work in cooperative groups to master academic material.

Members of the organized group consists of students who are capable of low, medium, and high.

each member of a cooperative group of different ethnic, cultural, and gender.

Characteristics of cooperative learning

Teachers must consider the different learning skills, cultural background, personalities, and even gender when arranging cooperative group

Regulating student

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The role of Teachers

Division of labor among students in the group

Face-to-face interaction between students

Assignment of specific roles and duties to students

Group processing of a task

The role of students

Students may explain things better to another student than a teacher to a class. Students learn how to teach one another and explain material in their own words

Positive interdependency is achieved as individuals feel that they cannot succeed unless everyone in their group succeeds

Interpersonal learning and collaboration skills between groups

The advantages

Lower ability students may feel perpetually in need of help rather than experiencing the role of leader or expert relative to the others in their group

a burden is making the students responsible for each other’s learning apart from themselves

Depending on an individual’s motivation

The disadvantages

In “cooperative learning”, students work together in small groups to complete a project or solve a problem. Advocates of cooperative learning claim that among other benefits, it increases student achievement.

The goals of cooperative learning

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