Abstract

Title: Cooperative Learning

Student: Sara Mamoçi

School: Univeristy of Foreign Languages; Tirana

“The importance of cooperative learning in the educational process “

Cooperative learning is an approach which aims to help students work together in groups in order to achieve a common goal. When it comes to teaching, there are different methods or strategies that a teacher can use to make the whole class participate. One of these strategies is called cooperative learning which enables students to work in small teams even though they have different skills. Working in pairs helps them to learn from each-other and they are responsible for helping everyone in the group. That means that they will interact, socialize and achieve goals as a whole team. This is an effective approach to be used in a classroom where diversity exists. Working in groups means that each student has the possibility to feel involved and that can lead to motivation and high self esteem. Likewise, working in groups can lead to critical thinking, creativity and communication; which are part of 21^st century skills. Developing these skills means success for students. For this particular reason is important to incorporate cooperative learning as part of the teaching process in order to facilitate learning and achieve important goals !