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Cooperative Learning
The following passage can be found in its entirety through the California Department of Education website.
 Cooperative Learning

Cooperative learning takes many forms and definitions, but most cooperative approaches involve small, heterogeneous teams, usually of four or five members, working together towards a group task in which each member is individually accountable for part of an outcome that cannot be completed unless the members work together; in other words, the group members are positively interdependent. A vivid example of interdependence can be found in the relationship between language-minority and language-majority students in two-way immersion programs. Native and non-native English speakers work together to become bilingual.

Please visit the CDE Website for references and bibliography citations.

 
Cooperative Learning is the best way to build smaller learning
communities within the classroom. 
 

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