Chapter 11/12 Questions



Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each team member is responsible for their material and helping their teammates learn. This atmosphere gives the student a sense of accomplishment.


I found this information based off my research:

Cooperative efforts result in participants striving for mutual benefit so that all group members:

• gain from each other's efforts. (Your success benefits me and my success benefits you.)
• recognize that all group members share a common fate. (We all sink or swim together here.)
• know that one's performance is mutually caused by oneself and one's team members. (We can not do it without you.)
• feel proud and jointly celebrate when a group member is recognized for achievement. (We all congratulate you on your accomplishment!).

We should plan because it gives us a skeleton of what we want to do. Teaching is all about flexibility and a lot of things don't stick to plan, but having one will give you a guideline of what you want to try and accomplish in the day.



It is important to have a group of diverse members because each student can bring something different. They can help each other understand what is being said and they will all learn different things from different backgrounds.





I don't remember a teacher who was especially good at making us think by asking asking questions. All my teachers encouraged asking questions and would never come right out and say what the answer was. they would respond by asking us a question to have us think more about it or have our peers help us out.


**Some of the other questions were answered in previous weeks**