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Cooperative Learning: Teamwork for Engineering Classrooms

Discover the key features of successful cooperative learning teams and how to promote effective teamwork in engineering classrooms. Explore the difference between traditional and cooperative teams, and learn how to maximize collaboration and performance. Reflect on past experiences and enhance your team management skills.

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Cooperative Learning: Teamwork for Engineering Classrooms

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  1. Cooperative Learning:Teamwork for Engineering Classrooms Ideas from Karl A. Smith

  2. Team ManagementReflections • Think about your most successful/effective team project experience • What were the characteristics of the team? • What were the conditions? • Have you had experiences with teams that were ineffective or frustrating? • What made the team ineffective? • What could you have done to improve the team?

  3. High-Performing Cooperative members team Cooperative Traditional Types of Teams Performance Level Pseudo Types of Teams

  4. Traditional Classroom Learning Teams Team members: • Believe they will be evaluated and rewarded as individuals, not as a team • Interact primarily to clarify how assignments are to be done • Have no motivation to teach what they know to their teammates • May seek a free ride on the efforts of teammates • Or may feel exploited and do less

  5. Cooperative Learning Teams • Have a goal of maximizing all members’ learning • Hold themselves accountable for doing high quality work • Work face-to-face to produce joint work-products • Promote success through helping, sharing, assisting, explaining, and encouraging • Provide both academic and personal support based on a commitment to and caring about each other • Use teamwork skills to coordinate their efforts and achieve their goals • Share responsibility for providing leadership • Analyze how effectively they are achieving their goals • Emphasize continual improvement of the teamwork process

  6. High-performance Cooperative Learning Team • Meets all the expectations of the cooperative learning team • Outperforms all reasonable expectations, given its membership • High level of commitment • Mutual concern for each other’s personal growth • Achieve high-performance and also have lots of fun

  7. What Makes Cooperative Learning Work? • Positive interdependence • Face-to-face interaction • Individual accountability/personal responsibility • Teamwork skills • Group processing

  8. Course Grading • Not on a curve • You are not competing with your classmates • If you all do well, you will all get good grades • Cooperation is rewarded, not penalized

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