Summary
Author: Jeanie M. Dotson
Source: Kagan Online Magazine, Winter 2011
Focus : Comparison Achievement Between
Students from Dunbar Middle school who were
introduced into Kagans Cooperative learning
and the other group with traditional learning.
(Anthony,2005)
Why it is important?
Content/ summary
Conti
Point: Teacher who use cooperative learning have
been self taught and teacher get used with variety of
methods.
Explanation:
Teacher learns to understand student behavior and
attitude through cooperative learning( Dr.Panitz,n.d)
Opinion:
-Agree
-Knows how to tackle each student
-Good relationship
Conti.
Point:
Questioning on why the cooperative learning was not widely used
.
Explanation :
- Lack of experience
- Funding/ financial support
-Administrative methods
- Too many to cover and free social time (Shindler,2009)
Opinion
- Disagree
- Teachers responsibility
-Timid observant
- Not used for teaching gimmick only
- Teachers job to secure the student future
Responses
Critiques
Weakness
-Does not listed how to apply in Science classroom
specifically
-Additional Article by Clyde (n.d) listed several
steps
- Tell how was the first class conducted
- Student impression on cooperative learning
- No specific data for each students
Conclusion
Impression towards the author
How to incorporated
- Teacher syllabus diversified
- A new subject formed
- More research on teacher perception and
how they apply it and how they should
start
- This method to be fixed in Malaysian
Education System
- Try to experiment