Teaching a Cooperative Lesson

For my final lesson, I taught a cooperative lesson plan. For this lesson, I had the students split into groups of 5 and one group of 6 to complete the task. The assigned task was to create playing cards, just like baseball cards, with important facts about figures during the American Revolution. This activity worked very well and from my observations, the students appeared to learn a lot and have fun. The students were able to recall information that was taught during the direct and inquiry lesson with little prompting.

After the lesson was finished, the students were asked to fill out a self and group evaluation form. I went around the room and asked the students to share what they feel they can improve on the next time they work in a group. It was very rewarding to hear that the students understand that working as a group mean that they need to work on listening skills and being thoughtful to everyone.