Collaboration Plans

Cooperative lesson plans are very important in unit plans.  Cooperative lesson plans focus on student's social skills. Also teachers must always remember that cooperative lessons have two goals, understanding content and practicing social skills. Performance objectives are based on what the teacher wants the students to learn.
 
This should be social skills, content, and evaluating themselves, as well as the group on how they collaborated. Materials should one set which is given out to each group, there is no individual materials. The introduction is where we find out the students social skills, and report on what the students will learn today. The development is where the teacher explains what he or she expects of the students, with both their social skills and the content being learned. The closure should also have two parts, the group projects and the roles the students played in their groups. With every cooperative lesson you should have the acronym, PIGS. Positive interdependence which means the students have to work with one another to benefit each other. Individual accountability means each student is accountable for their work in the group, the group must evaluate themselves and one another. Group Processing is when the students reflect on their work, they also talk about positive and effective working relationships. Social skills is the certain skills needed for cooperative learning. These skills are forming skills, functioning skills, fermenting skills, formulating skills, etc. Remember, Cooperative lessons have two goals, and two closures.