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Classroom C: Kagan Structures. The teacher in Classroom C knows and uses a range of Kagan Structures. That is, to
promote content and language learning Teacher C, like Teacher B, has students sitting in groups of four and often calls for
interaction in groups. There is a critical difference, though. The interaction of students in Classroom C is highly structured.
Teacher C uses Kagan Structures. We peek into Classroom C during the same vocabulary lesson. The teacher gives groups a
directive: "In your groups, turn to your shoulder partner and do a RallyRobin. Take turns naming some of the items we find in the
produce section of the market."
David W Johnson and Roger T Johnson.Without the cooperation of its members society cannot survive, and
the society
of man has survived because the cooperativeness of its members made survival possible…. It was not an advantageous
individual here and there who did so, but the group. In human societies the individuals who are most likely to survive are those
who are best enabled to do so by their group [2].
How students interact with each another is a neglected aspect of instruction. Much training time is devoted
to helping
teachers arrange appropriate interactions between students and materials (i.e., textbooks, curriculum programs) and some time is
spent on how teachers should interact with students, but how students should interact with one another is relatively ignored. It
should not be. How teachers structure student-student interaction patterns has a lot to say about how well students learn, how
they feel about school and the teacher, how they feel about each other, and how much self-esteem they have [5].
In the mid-1960s,cooperative learning was relatively unknown and largely ignored by educators.Elementary,secondary,
and university teaching was dominated by competitive and individualistic learning.Cultural resistance to cooperative learning
was based on social Darwinism, with its premise that students must be taught to survive in a “dog-eat-dog” world, and the myth
of “rugged individualism” underlying the use of individualistic learning. While competition dominated
educational thought, it
was being challenged by individualistic learning largely based on B. F. Skinner’s work on programmed learning and behavioral
modification.Educational practices and thought, however, have changed.Cooperative learning is now an accepted and often the
preferred instructional procedure at all levels of education. Cooperative learning is presently used in schools and universities in
every part of the world, in every subject area, and with every age student. It is difficult to find a text
on instructional methods, a
teacher’s journal, or instructional materials that do not discuss cooperative learning.Materials on cooperative learning have been
translated into dozens of languages.Cooperative learning is now an accepted and highly recommended instructional procedure
[1].
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