Cooperative learning, known as a learning approach that can provide capabilities and communication in learning, or learning occurs in social contexts. with cooperative learning model, can manifest atmosphere of social relations and the interdependence within individual self.

Generally, cooperative learning has the purpose:
- Improve the performance of students in academic tasks. Many experts believe the cooperative learning model that excellence in helping students understand difficult concepts in
- In order for students to receive their friends from various different labels: race, religion, academic ability, and social level
- Develop the social skills: sharing tasks, actively asking, respect other people's opinions, fishing friends to ask, would explain the idea / opinion, work in groups, and so forth.

Characteristics of Cooperative Learning:
- To complete the learning material, students learn in cooperative groups.
- The group was formed students with high, medium, and low
- Keep within each group consists of students from racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, and gender are different.
- Awards are preferred for groups rather than individuals.

The steps in implementing cooperative learning as follows:
- Teacher creates an atmosphere, the existence of positive interdependence
- The existence of individual accountability in children
- Chairman of the democratically elected
- Teach social skills: leadership, attitude, confidence, ability to manage conflict
- Teachers conduct the monitoring: observation and intervention, if necessary.
- Teachers note the process group.
- not just conflict resolution activities, but also the presence of interpersonal relationships.

 

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