Let me say this. There is some question as to whether cooperative learning is a fad and will soon evaporate once the beauty of the lecture process or some other pedagogical delivery scheme emerges. And all I have to say is that, yes, sure, maybe there are still even better approaches. One of the hallmarks of teaming and cooperative learning is that it is built in the continuous improvement process or has that built into it. If you learn or find other strategies that work, then you are allowed to bring them in. All I can say is that I believe I am a much more effective teacher now with the cooperative learning method, and I thought I was a very effective teacher beforehand. I believe there has been a step up in my productivity and my ability to help students learn, and it is not a technique I intend to abandon. At least, I don’t intend to retreat to the lecture method. It is probably the most worthwhile thing I’ve done in my twenty years of being an educator.

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