Cooperative Learning yields almost immediate results because it puts all pupils simultaneously on task, automatically creating highly differentiated learning through negotiation.

This is possible because Cooperative Learning is composed of discrete Cooperative Learning Interaction Patterns (CLIPs), picked and timed by teachers and defining step-by-step how all students interact with materials and each other to achieve your specific learning objectives.

The tight step-by-step control of interaction ensures all pupils continuously account for their own learning - and very often that of their peers or whole team. There is positive peer pressure to perform, but because it is built into every CLIP, accountability becomes, in the words of Ms Gillespie above, “...how they learn. Because they've learned that's how they learn, through these CLIPs.”

The simultaneous engagement sets teachers free to monitor these very free and candid discussions, providing realistic, real-time insight into the learning process of each student, improving feedback and next steps, on individual, team and class level.

All CLIPs secure equal participation. This means higher ability pupils will not dominate, but need their peers and will actually benefit from continuously reformulating their own understanding when encountering lower ability pupils. These in turn will learn to identify and explain their needs, receive tailored instructions in subject matter and acquire language and thinking skills through modeling.

In the long term, this daily negotiation drills key concepts and procedures and integrates reflection on own learning, which again improves academic performance.

Cooperative Learning is fully scalable and the CLIPs are void of content, meaning that any current tasks or materials may provide content in any subject.

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