Cooperation in teaching: The effects of implementing the “trefoil” model
The starting point of the paper is the importance of developing the skill of cooperation and the undisputed significance of cooperative work for the outcomes of the learning process. We examine the effects of teacher training conducted in order to encourage the teachers to implement work me...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | srp |
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Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2016/0579-64311601027D.pdf |
| Summary: | The starting point of the paper is the importance of developing the skill of
cooperation and the undisputed significance of cooperative work for the
outcomes of the learning process. We examine the effects of teacher training
conducted in order to encourage the teachers to implement work methods and
forms aimed at developing cooperation. Cooperation is operationalised through
the following components: cooperative learning, exchange of opinions with the
aim of accomplishing the goal and prosocial behaviour that includes
understanding and empathy. The data were collected by repeated observation -
before and after the conducted training. The sample included 72 classes
realised by 20 teachers of one primary school. Using variance analysis, we
determined the effects on two out of four cooperation indicators: the teacher
encourages group activities with the common goal and cooperative learning and
the teacher encourages the students to talk and exchange opinions in order to
achieve a certain goal together. There were no effects on the indicators that
referred to including the teacher in the exchange process and encouraging
understanding and empathy in students. The lack of effects was ascribed to
the way in which teachers perceive their role in relation to students, as
well as to the limited number of the observed classes. Research findings
point to the efficiency and usefulness of this way of improving teaching
practice as well as to the changes that can be implemented to enhance the
presented training programme. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije,
br. 179034: Od podsticanja inicijative, saradnje i stvaralaštva u obrazovanju
do novih uloga i identiteta u društvu] |
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| ISSN: | 0579-6431 1820-9270 |