1. What is Cooperative Learning?
Instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning.
Groups work through assignments until all group members successfully understand and complete it.
Your success benefits me and my success benefits you. (All group members share a common fate.)
We all sink together or swim together.
Positive interdependence among students’ goal attainments.

2. Why Use Cooperative Learning?
Cooperation, compared with individualistic efforts, typically result in
higher achievements and greater productivity
more caring, supportive, and committed relationships
social competence and self-esteem

3. What Makes Cooperative Groups Work?
Positive Interdependence
Face-to-Face Promotive Interaction
Individual and Group Accountability
Interpersonal and Small-Group Skills
Group Processing

4. POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE
Each group member’s effort are required and indispensable for group success.
Each group member has a unique contribution.
If there is no positive interdependence, then there is no cooperation.

5. FACE-TO-FACE PROMOTIVE INTERACTION
Student’s promote each others success by sharing resources and helping, supportive, encouraging, and applauding each others effort.
Orally explaining how to solve problems, teaching one’s knowledge to others, checking for understanding, discussing concepts being learned, and connecting present with past learning.

6. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP ACCOUNTABILITY
Each group is accountable for achieving its goals and each member is accountable for contributing his/her share of the work.
Individual accountability exists when the performance of each individual is assessed and the results are given back to the group and individual.
Students learn together so that they can gain greater individual competency.

7. INTERPERSONAL AND SMALL GROUP SKILLS
Students engage simultaneously in task work and teamwork.
Leadership, decision-making, trust-building, communication, and conflict management skills empower students to manage both task work and teamwork successfully.

8. GROUP PROCESSING
Group members discuss how well they are achieving their goals and maintaining effective work relationships.
Group members describe what actions are helpful and unhelpful and make decisions about what behaviors continue or change.