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Cooperative Learning

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Group ofteaching strategies that provide structured rolesfor students while emphasizing student-student interactions.
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Jigsaw is designed to helpstudents acquire organized bodies of knowledge through the process oftask
specialization, which requires that different students assume specialized roles in reachingthe goals of alearning
activity.
STAD is commonly used incombinations with direct instruction, but STAD uses teamstudy in place ofindependent
practice, which is the final phase ofdirect instruction

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy in which individual students become experts on subsections of a topic and
teach that subsection to others.

Student Teams Achievement Divisions STAD is a cooperative learning strategy that provides multi-ability teams
with practice in learning concepts and skills.

STAD is designed to increaselearner motivation by giving students improvement points and team rewards for
increases in their performance.

So what? What is important to understand about this?

Groupwork,cooperativelearning,anddiscussionscanincreasestudentmotivationbycapitalizingonthe
motivatingeffectsofsocialinteractionandinvolvement.