Planning Cooperative Learning Lessons - Getting Started with Cooperative Learning

As with any instructional strategy, planning for active/cooperative learning classroom activities begins with looking at the knowledge and the skills that students should develop as a result of the lesson. If A/CL is appropriate to that development, then the task of creating effective team activities begins. Well-designed team assignments give students a specific task, such as solving a problem, creating a model, or comparing and contrasting. To a certain extent, they also provide a set of instructions or guidelines that describe how students should work together. Finally, the lesson should include some sort of class-wide debriefing or closure activity in which students are randomly called upon the present the team’s work. This helps to both build in individual accountability for participation and to ensure that all students understood the material and are ready to work with it independently.

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