Cooperative learning and skills

Abstract

We call cooperative learning to a group from teaching and learning procedures that begin of the organization of the classroom in heterogeneous composition small groups, that work together and way that his members' objectives are so closely linked, that his successful possibility in the achievement of these objectives depends only and exclusively according to which the rest of them also reach theirs, that are the same. This procedure set have in common the positive interdependence between the group memberships, the individual accountability, the face-to-face positive interaction, inherent abilities to small groups and group's dynamic or process.

It is basic, in a constructivist learning process, that students, belong to the level that is, (any person that learns) ponder on his own learning and that this learning be social, this is, that is learn with other. These work strategies are optimal to achieve that students acquire specific and generic skills of each level of education. In this contribution, is pondered on advantages that cooperatively work offers for better to reach the education in responsibilities that his citizens' demand society.