Co-Operative Learning Techniques in the Classroom

Carlos began to enjoy school more and think of his anglo classmates, not as tormentors, but as friends. The task then is not to liminate academic competition, but to break its monopoly in the classroom by introducing regular co operative successes that include members of all ethnic groups. When i talk to my students, or even my neighbors and friends about the prospects for co operative learning approaches, i can feel optimism rise in me. Now there is at least one crack in the gloom, and i find myself genuinely excited about it.