Cooperative Learning

       There should be interaction between the students and the students should share their own ideas. The cooperative learning includes these and set the interaction between the students. In the cooperative learning, different grade level students come together and do their tasks together. So low level grade students can get help from the high grade level students and this can be inspiring for them. This is helpful for low level grade students, also this is helpful for high level student because when they are trying to help low level students, they should think deeper and be clear. That’s why they pay attention to these features and try to gain them. They gain an academic features of teaching. Also, there are students together from different culture, race, social class or ability. So the students learn also different types of person skills. They can broaden their horizons. Because, people from the different cultures have some specific personal features and skills. For the specific task during the instruction, they bring different information together and create an effective task.

Moreover, this learning method teaches the students cooperation and collaboration which are critical skills in todays’ world. They need to share their ideas and reach a common result according to everyone’s’ ideas. In that way, the students also learn respect term because if one student don’t like the other students’ idea, he/she know that there can be different ideas and the students should show respect others. As a result, this learning method gives students;

•  Academic Achievement
•  Tolerance and Acceptance of diversity
•   Social Skills