Teachers need to develop cooperative group projects that allow for individual assessment as well as team assessment. In addition, strong leaders need to emerge and be shaped by teachers. The business world has many suggestions for strong teamwork, and students who learn how to work in teams in school can be successful in the business world later in life.
Students Must Work Together to Succeed
The Edtech website explains that cooperative learning creates an “atmosphere of achievement” because each team member has to help the other team members learn, and each team member must learn the material individually as well. In addition, it promotes positive interdependence where the group must “sink or swim” together, and they must learn how to be successful by using their interpersonal skills.
Working Through Problems of Cooperative Learning
Some teachers who have tried cooperative learning complain that there are students who don’t do any work and “ride on the coat-tails of others." Because everyone receives the same grade, there are sometimes a few students who allow others to do all of the work.