Cooperative
Learning
Team Cooperation Goals
The five team cooperation goals identify the behaviors
 Practice Active Listening
needed for positive teamwork. The Getting Started unit
 Help and Encourage Others
includes video introductions to these goals. To build effective
teamwork, you will need to continually teach each of these
 Everyone participates
behaviors, provide feedback to students when they use the
 Explain Your Ideas/Tell Why
team cooperation goals, and award team celebration points
 Complete Tasks
for effective use of the team cooperation goals. By focusing
on a single behavior at a time and having team celebration
points tied to this targeted behavior, you will create a class culture of cooperation.
Team Cooperation Goals and Related Behaviors
Practice Active Listening
Explain Your Ideas/Tell Why
Complete Tasks
Everyone Participates
Help and Encourage Others
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Look at the speaker.
Stay with the group.
Acknowledge others.
Request additional
information.
Restate ideas.
Give information or ideas.
Elaborate on own ideas and
those of others.
Tell why and/or how.
Restate tasks.
Stay on task.
Complete individual tasks.
Check partner’s work.
Follow directions.
Use student routines.
Take turns.
All team members contribute.
Use role cards, talking sticks,
or equity sticks well.
Use first names.
Talk in a soft voice.
Share materials.
Help everyone on the team
learn.
Offer encouraging words.
Help peers do things for
themselves.
Find out what peers think.
Invite one another to
participate.
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Use “I” statements.
Concentrate.
Paraphrase.
Extend another’s response.
Generate questions.
Challenge ideas, not people.
Give personal evidence.
Relate past learning to
present learning.
Give textual evidence.
Call attention to time limits.
Restate goal or purpose of
assignment.
Use rubrics to check work.
Avoid off-task behavior.
Rotate role of discussion
facilitator.
Integrate all ideas into a
single response.
Acknowledge one another’s
contributions and ideas.
Restate directions for
activity.
Summarize what has been
read and/or discussed.
Seek accuracy by calling
attention to ideas and facts.