Correct Answer - Option 3 : Cooperative learning
Cooperative learning may best be defined as small heterogeneously mixed working groups of learners learning collaborative skills while working towards a common academic goal or task.
- The teacher's role in cooperative learning changes from a knowledge provider to a facilitator who guides the learner both academically and socially.
Cooperative learning:
- promotes the success of the individual student and group members and forms personal bonds.
- promotes valuable social skills, higher-order thinking, the practice of new concepts, processes, and information.
- increases students’ motivation, promotes understanding, and psychological adjustment among the students.
- fosters encouragement and support among the members, and rewards successful group participation in the learning of school subjects.
Hence, it could be concluded that a learning situation in which multiple partners stimulate and encourage one another is called Cooperative Learning.
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Team teaching: It refers to meeting the needs of a group of students in an appropriate learning environment. It provides for variety in instructional procedures, assignments, etc.
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Programmed instructions: It refers to presenting the materials of a new concept gradually to the students to make them work on those materials at their own ease and time.
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Discovery learning: It refers to an approach that emphasizes the active involvement of learners. It promotes the use of critical and imaginative thinking.
