Cooperative Learning

After viewing the video that accompanied our course text 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, I was impressed with the Cooperative Learning strategy. I use Cooperative Learning whenever possible, and was pleased to see it presented by another teacher. It gave me the idea of using silence at the beginning of a group activity and then progressing to allow verbal communication. I believe this could show students the importance of collaboration. I also gained the idea of using job cards during our class discussion. When using job cards each student is given a job such as explaining the task, speaker, recorder, and etc.