The Cooperative Learning Activity

February 10, 2010









This day was over-filled with fun, learning and enjoyment. We had another team-building activity. Last time, my students were like architect who build the strongest and tallest tower in the class. This time around, they were engineers who will measure a lot. It has something to do with cooperation. It found out which of them are cooperative and has creative mind who can decide a strategy on how they are going to tear the sheet of papers to accommodate a large area of land.

The extraordinary experience here was that we get out of the room to let them realize that learning is not confined inside the classroom, that there are many resources beyond the four walls of the classroom.

When I taught English subject, I experienced a difficult task to teach them the concept of making inferences. I made too much effort for them to get the extract of the lesson. I supported the discussion through creative visual aids yet it was not so efficient since the students are poor in English.

Here we go. I taught the new concept in Math which is the fraction. Since I know that they are good in drawing and that they love art, I make the activity fun in th part of the students by letting them color the part which show the fractional parts of a given figure or group of objects. Because of this, I never find it hard to let them know how to identify and name fractional parts.

When I taught Filipino, the subject matter was about ‘pangunahing diwa’. I employed the strategy I had used during my In-campus teaching for identifying main idea. I had proven that the teaching strategy was very efficient and effective. It incorporates cooperative learning. The discussion flow smoothly and the students easily grasp the lesson being taught.

I am very proud because of this strategy I originally conceptualized. Instead of presenting a paragraph to students to discuss identifying main idea, I used inductive method by presenting series of pictures, words, sentences and paragraph until they had already know what to do or how to identify the main idea or what does the words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs tell about. I will treasure this most effective and efficient lesson plan I have ever had.

I almost lost my energy for this day but it is okay. I felt satisfied because it shows that my effectiveness had not waste out my energy and effort.