Cooperation with peers during the elementary stage of education

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Teaching children the art of cooperation makes them realize the importance and value of teamwork, develop trust with others, enhance empathy, and imbibe social skills. It teaches them the value of listening to others and showing patience during a conflict.

When students work together to accomplish shared goals, and it is this sense of interdependence that motivate group members to help and support each other.

When students work cooperatively they learn to listen to what others have to say.

They give and receive help, reconcile differences, and resolve problems democratically.

The role the teacher plays in establishing cooperative learning in the classroom is critically important for its success. This involves being aware of how to structure cooperative learning in groups, including their size and composition the type of task set; expectations for student behavior; individual and group responsibilities; and the teacher’s role in monitoring both the process and the outcomes of the group experience. It increases creativity and innovation. It also fosters peer learning and self-improvement and involves students’ cognitive as well as social-emotional learning.

The purpose of cooperative learning is to provide structured opportunities for learners to work together to learn both content and collaboration skills, such as communication, conflict management, leadership, and decision-making, while also strengthening their commitment to group goals and other group members.

Cooperative learning is not only a means of improving cognitive student achievement. It also has shown considerable potential to facilitate social-emotional outcomes. Moreover, learning to cooperate is in itself an important educational goal.

Collaborative skills and teamwork have an important place in all sets of 21st-century skills, as they are expected to become even more important in the future because of social and economic developments.

Through cooperative learning students’ get opportunities to practice their group work skills. For instance, during cooperative learning all students’ get the chance to use various speech elements: ask questions, provide answers, give suggestions, and critically reflect on each other’s ideas. Cooperative learning techniques, such as Think-Pair-Share, provide structure and guidance to group work. During
cooperative learning activities, positive interdependence between group members is promoted. Positive interdependence exists when pupils perceive that they are linked together and their actions promote the achievement of joint goals. It promotes a situation in which pupils work together to maximize the learning of all group members, provide mutual support, share resources, and celebrate joint success.




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