Getting Started

Cooperative learning, like any skill, takes time and practice. As you begin to implement cooperative learning
into your classroom, be patient with yourself and your students. Through continuous teaching, modeling,
prompting, and reinforcing, your teams will learn how to work together in a productive, successful way. The
next section will help you get started by explaining how to build, teach, manage, motivate, and celebrate
teamwork in your cooperative-learning classroom.