Identify several ways that teachers can ensure individual accountability in cooperative learning groups.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Response should include three to five of the following:
• Make certain the group task or goal requires all members to learn and participate.
• Never select a task or goal that one student could do alone.
• Frequently remind students that the purpose of cooperative learning is to make certain all students learn, not just get the right answer or finish the task.
• Discuss with students why individual accountability is fair.
• Use structures, such as numbered heads together, which reinforce individual accountability.
• Do not step in too quickly when students struggle. Allow group members to develop interdependence and assist one another.
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