How Cooperative Learning Creates Student`s Achievement

Learning is a model of interactions designed to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes of learners. In learning process, learners or students need guidance by teachers to achieve educational objectives. Multiple interactions have occurred between students-teachers, students-students, teachers-teachers, and students-teachers-environments  in learning process to bring each of them finding the values of lives. Students can identify their abilities, skills, and intelligence. The important points of learning are how to treat others and what for we have to learn something. 

  

Teachers are the main key of successful learning. They do designing, organizing, and evaluating in every learning activity to their students. They are leaders of class and have authorities to decide approaches, strategies, and methods of teaching. Kagan (1989) said “teachers who are well versed in a variety of team structures can create skillful lessons that engage and enlighten their students”. The skillful teachers can combine various ways to stimulate their students in learning process interactions.

Cooperative learning is a good approach to push student`s capabilities in togetherness and unity. According to Ibrahim (2000:7) “cooperative learning model is developed at least to gain three important aims of learning: academic achievements, accepting to diversities, and social skill developments”. Students create teamwork to solve the problems and they will forget about their differences. It can make students more responsible to their action because it will bring effects to their group. Positive competition is also grown in every group. Students have highly motivation to do the best things not only for themselves but also for their peers. They have desired that all of them get the best results in examination.  

In cooperative learning, teacher is a centered aspect to success of the students. Teacher should be involved actively to manage this way. It can be started how to identify our students, what cognitive level of our student is, and why we have to combine students in many different backgrounds to work in a group. As the teachers, we have to believe to our students and we have to give them chances to show their ability. We cannot give up in every single achievement of our students. 

References:

Ibrahim, dkk. (2000). Pembelajaran Kooperatif.: UNESA Press, Surabaya.

Kagan, Spencer (1989). Educational leadership.  Journal. soc.edurm.ru.