Unleashing Curiosity with Dynamic Cooperation
Unleashing Curiosity with Dynamic Cooperation
Cooperative learning is a flexible, powerful strategy to enhance student curiosity. Teachers can maximize cooperative learning by designing tasks that emphasize collaboration while maintaining individual accountability for learning.
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Small group work—cooperative learning—is a flexible and powerful strategy that can maximize learning and the development of the important workplace skills of collaboration, communication, curiosity, and creativity. And students who engage in cooperative learning can learn significantly more, remember what they learn longer, and develop better critical thinking skills. This 8-page quick reference guide gives teachers research-based insights and strategies for creating dynamic cooperative learning activities that help students develop social skills and positive interdependence while also retaining individual accountability.
Our Unleashing Curiosity guides are part of McREL’s Curiosity Works® resources. Based in part on a successful system-wide effort in Melbourne, Australia that improved student achievement by unleashing student curiosity, these resources give teachers and school leaders tips, suggestions, and ideas to encourage professional dialogue with other teachers and increase student curiosity. Combining these insights with McREL’s analysis of best education practices from around the world, our Curiosity Works resources support a better way of transforming schools—not through top-down pressure, but through helping teachers and school leaders work together to develop shared professional expertise and leverage the power of motivation and curiosity.