What are Cooperative Learning Structures?
‘Structures’ are easy to learn series of repeatable steps that can be used across the whole curriculum to develop mastery (Revision, Review, Recall, Practice etc.), thinking skills (Problem Solving, Evaluating, Analysing, Synhesising etc.) communication skills or for information sharing, teambuilding and classbuilding. Many structures are useful across more than one domain, so for example at the same time as you are reviewing content using Quiz Quiz Trade you can also be working on Classbuilding improving the class tone. As the structures are content free they can be used time and again thus breaking the ‘replacement cycle’. Once you master structures you will be able to make every lesson a Cooperative Learning lesson. Why use Cooperative Learning Structures? Delivering your lesson content using Cooperative Learning Structures is a way of easily increasing the amount of time your pupils spend ‘on task’. Along with this increased engagement come all the benefits (See BENEFITS) of facili
