Cooperative Lesson Plan

Cooperative learning focuses in the achievement of a group of students. In the cooperative learning, student is main focus, but the teacher still has full control of the class. In a cooperative approach the teacher will present the problem or pose the question which usually requires some higher order thinking skills; and encourage students in a small group usually of 4 individuals to use any resources like surfing the net, read book or articles. Then, the group will analyze and come up with answers will be shared with the whole class. this cooperative technique helps student reducing racial conflict among them with building knowledge and skills. Students develop some learning skills and helping each other while promoting better learning.
This technique helps with student’s motivation and makes learning a fun experience. The cooperative learning is that students learn from building, using their experience usually forming a smalls group. Students will not focus in their learning ability or the skills learned but focus also on the progress the group or the other students are making. The basic is that students learn while doing something, but not when the same thing is doing to them like the teacher telling and doing everything. The cooperative learning was born from the constructivist epistemology.
The collaborative learning is not much different from cooperative. the collaborative learning focuses on networking. Collaborative learning also requires student to collect tools to assist with his/her own learning experience and others. students are responsible to assemble the sufficient materials such as internet, videos, and much more in order to come to a conclusion or an answer to the question asked. Also, in the collaborative learning just like the cooperative the teacher in not at the center of attention; but would offer assistance to facilitate or assist with any conflict resolution.
The collaborative and Cooperative Learning are great techniques to assist student in developing a higher level of thinking skills. While working as a group, students learn to develop very good social interaction skills and build their self esteem. Student would not wait for a class learning curriculum, but be involve in the development. Student would learn from the class presentation of the solution of the problem posed how to criticize the other student’s ideas but not the student. Finally, the collaborative and cooperative learning help student be a great team work while achieving a higher levels of thoughts.