Much valuable student learning time is lost when students must wait for the teacher to circulate through the classroom. Cooperative learning provides exciting learning opportunities across content areas. Students can work in cooperative groups to research topics, write reports, and plan and implement class discussions, debates, and panels. Students can also use cooperative groups to read materials, write summaries, find specific information, and answer questions. They can work together to study for tests, memorize information, and articulate concepts.
Students can receive feedback and editing assistance from peers.
They can engage in hands-on projects, experiments, and practical application. They can design and implement school and community service projects. You can increase student learning time and reduce your own stress level and workload by teaching students to help one another with learning and organizational tasks and to monitor one another's progress. This allows you to become a facilitator of learning and allows students to become responsible for their own learning and that of their peers. Some other benefits of cooperative learning are listed in the box below.