Classroom Management
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
In today world, education has supposed to enable students to meet expectations of the
business environment and of daily living. In other words, education receiving in primary,
secondary, high schools and colleges should provide students with some opportunities
regarding social skills apart from knowledge about their courses because in recent years ,
almost all people have received high level education and they have had wide knowledge they
need in business life. However, most of these people have difficulty in communicating their
ideas or thoughts to other people. This situation is critical for not only business life but also
daily living. Thus, lately, new practices have been taken by some teachers in several schools.
One of such practices is cooperative learning.
Cooperative learning is described as a way that is used for effective learning. It
enables students to gain experience sharing responsibility with each other. Therefore,
“ cooperative learning is grounded in the belief that learning is most effective when students are actively involved in sharing ideas and work cooperatively to complete academic
tasks. Cooperative learning has been used as both an instructional method and as learning
tool at various level of education and in various subject areas.” ( Johnson & Johnson, 1994,
p.36). Whereas cooperative learning is regarded as the most effective way to not only
gain information but also acquire some social skills such as impressive communication ,
social adaptation by several people , others consider that this way has some drawbacks
such as the lack of individual accountability on some groups that study cooperatively.
However, it is told that the advantages of cooperative learning outweigh the drawbacks of it.
Thus, the method of cooperative learning should be more prevalent in all grades.
One of the benefits of cooperative learning
In today world, education has supposed to enable students to meet expectations of the
business environment and of daily living. In other words, education receiving in primary,
secondary, high schools and colleges should provide students with some opportunities
regarding social skills apart from knowledge about their courses because in recent years ,
almost all people have received high level education and they have had wide knowledge they
need in business life. However, most of these people have difficulty in communicating their
ideas or thoughts to other people. This situation is critical for not only business life but also
daily living. Thus, lately, new practices have been taken by some teachers in several schools.
One of such practices is cooperative learning.
Cooperative learning is described as a way that is used for effective learning. It
enables students to gain experience sharing responsibility with each other. Therefore,
“ cooperative learning is grounded in the belief that learning is most effective when students are actively involved in sharing ideas and work cooperatively to complete academic
tasks. Cooperative learning has been used as both an instructional method and as learning
tool at various level of education and in various subject areas.” ( Johnson & Johnson, 1994,
p.36). Whereas cooperative learning is regarded as the most effective way to not only
gain information but also acquire some social skills such as impressive communication ,
social adaptation by several people , others consider that this way has some drawbacks
such as the lack of individual accountability on some groups that study cooperatively.
However, it is told that the advantages of cooperative learning outweigh the drawbacks of it.
Thus, the method of cooperative learning should be more prevalent in all grades.
One of the benefits of cooperative learning
References: Zakaria, E., & Iksan, Z. (2007).Promoting cooperative learning in science and mathematics education: a Malaysian perspective. Eurasia Journal Mathematics , Science and Technology, 3(1), 35-39. Bunker, B. B. & Rubin, J. Z. (1995).Cooperative learning in education .In D.W. Johnson &R. T. Johnson. Conflict Cooperation and Justice, (pp. 224-230). Brown, S.A., & Klein, B. D. (2004).Are cooperative learning techniques fragile in information systems? Journal of Informatics Education Research, Retrieved March 30, 2012 from http://www.sig-ed.org/jier/v8n3/JIERv8n3_article2.pdf