Last day of presentations about cooperative learning

Last Thursday we had two presentations in class the one was made by the group ‘’escuela de bocacion ‘’ and the other by our group ‘’futupasta’’ . In the last day that we have this subject (the guide for cooperative learning) we still learnt a lot of new information that we didn’t know before.

First of all ,the students of the group ‘’escuela de bocation’’  talked about the theory of multiple intelligences and how this theory is connected  with the cooperative learning. The connection is obvious but I never thought about this in this way before.  Like in the theory of multiple intelligences a lot of different intelligences are much better than one intelligence alone to solve any problem, in a similar way the ideas and the knowledge of one student will be much more improved if he/she  shared this ideas and listen to new ones by cooperating with other students. A lot and different perspectives work much better than one.

Another very important idea that was mentioned was the autonomy of the students. The autonomy of the children is an important factor than have to reach during their development and something that will affect their lives in general. Our children have to be autonomous to face the life and the society.  Education and we as teachers have to help our pupils in this area. By guidance and by helping our pupils to organize their works in groups we help them little every time to be intepended, responsible and to have no need from others to do their work for them.

The teachers role is not to give the answer to the pupils like it’s happening in traditional teaching but to guide them to teach them how to work for finding the answer by themselves and don’t have it ready for them. The teacher observe his\hers students, encourages the students have dialogue with them but don’t give them the knowledge ready, the teacher helps them reach this knowledge by themselves. Also a very important fact is that the evaluation is not only teacher’s job but also students.

In our presentation also threw the dialogue and the teacher’s help we also learned a lot. We have thought before that the method of games tournaments was competitive and didn’t fit a lot to the spirit of cooperative learning but know we found out that the example of this method is wrong and that the one price for the group with the most correct answers win is not a good way to encourage our students. The prices shouldn’t be first and second but prices for all for example ‘’the group that overcome the most problems’’.