This guide to cooperative learning by an experienced music educator outlines how the method can lead to a happy, enthusiastic environment that benefits everyone. As author Carol Huffman explains, in the cooperative learning classroom, it is the students who become teachers of their fellow students, while the teacher becomes the facilitator of an interchange of ideas. As a result, students become more independent and responsible for their own learning, and are more capable of applying what they have learned to solve problems within the framework of the subject.
This guide to cooperative learning by an experienced music educator outlines how the method can lead to a happy, enthusiastic environment that benefits everyone. As author Carol Huffman explains, in the cooperative learning classroom, it is the students who become teachers of their fellow students, while the teacher becomes the facilitator of an interchange of ideas. As a result, students become more independent and responsible for their own learning, and are more capable of applying what they have learned to solve problems within the framework of the subject.
