Szkoła Podstawowa Nr112 im.Jana Pawła II Warsaw, Poland

Sharing Stories about Cooperation is a course aimed at children aged 9/10(form III) who have been learning English for two years. The aim of 30 meetings – 45 minutes each is to improve collaborative skills, students attitudes towards school, peers, and self, increase ability to appreciate and consider a variety of perspectives, increase students responsibility for their own learning and motivation to learn. The programme is based on 7 picture books (real books) about different aspects of cooperation and sharing.

Sharing Stories about Cooperation

Why Cooperative Learning?

More Positive

Relationship Among Students

Greater

Psychological Health

Greater Efforts To Achieve

The cooperative learning work has been organised in three groups of 20 children each. Two experimental groups have been carefully guided through co-operative learning programme and one controlled group has been tested to make comparisons.

Six teachers and two school psychologists have been involved in the process of planning, evaluating and gathering information.

How was cooperative learning/teaching organized?

Heterogeneous Grouping

Examination of the class structure and hierarchy and position of the individual students.

Examination of the educational capability, and achievement level.

Examination of the cognitive functions involved in learning a foreign language.

Building a Climate of Cooperation

Establishing Routines

Arranging the Classroomfor cooperative Learning

Team Mascots

Find Someone Who

Classroom Classified

Cooperative Games

Positive Interdependence

Jigsaw

Think-Pair-Share

Individual Accountability

Circle of Artists

Circle of Writers

Simultaneous Interaction and Equal Participation

Numbered Heads Together

Assessment

Self-Assessment

Peer Assessment

Group Assessment

Teacher Assessment

Evaluation of the Programme

Children – Testing attitudes

Teachers – Evaluation Questionnaire

Parents - Evaluation Questionnaire