Reflection 5

Cooperative and collaborative learning are very useful learning styles. These learning style will not just help you in a classroom but they will also help you with task in everday life. These two learning styles help you prepare for working with other people for places like a big cooperation, a job/career, and also college projects,or business functions.
Collaborative learing is when a method of teaching and learning in which students team together and to explore the significant question or create a meaningful project. Students can excersise collaborative learning though discussing a lecture or joining other students from different schools on the world wide web on shared assignments. Cooperative learning is basically a specific kind of collaborative lesson plan. With coorperative learning student work on a structured activity however they are all individually responsible for their own work and the group work also. This encourages responsibility and teamwork.
Within these learning styles students learn well together. It has been argued on both sides about the specific pro's and con's with collaboartive learning. Certain teachers believe that students work well in mixed groups that it is better for more advanced students to work with lower level students becuase all students will benifit from the experience. The advanced student will benifit from the tutoring experience and the lower level students will learn from their peers. However on the other side you have teachers that believe that placing the more advance students with lower level students is harmful becuase they won't really be learning and progressing... That eventually they will get bored or either fall behind. But going of that perspective all students will have different levels of progress as opposed to the whole class understanding the lesson or assignment at hand as a whole. These are very strong points and based on the teachers objective they will be grouped accordingly. My personal opinion is that we as teacher should do both. We shouldnt group the same for every assignment. We should test our objectives and see which one works more effectively in our classes. I do believe more that the advance students should be pared together because if they are pared with lower level student they will be forced to b a lower level student in a way.