Social Interactive Model - Collaborative & Cooperative Methods

Social Interactive Model (SIM) of teaching encourages students to work cooperatively and collaboratively. The SIM model focuses on the skills and concepts needed for students to work in productive groups with a common goal. In this model learning is interactive whereas the Teacher is a guide on the side to facilitate the learning process. Students are encouraged to share their knowledge, experiences, perspectives and learning strategies with their learning community.


Cooperative Learning - In a Cooperative Learning environment students are responsible for a job in a small group. The basic elements of Cooperative Learning are Positive Interdependence, Individual Accountability, Group Processing, and Social Skills. Members are placed in a small non-segregated groups to accomplish an assignment that requires the cooperation of all group members. Group members gain from each others efforts during assignment. Members contribute knowledge, skills, and resources. All group members share a common fate - successfully completion is accomplished when all group
members have acquired the learning objectives and goals.


Collaborative Learning is a team of learners not limited to the four walls of a classroom. Collaborative Learning is the method of instructional strategy utilized for the entire course whereas Cooperative Learning is one method used for one learning objective or assignment. Collaborative learning is more meaningful learning because it focuses on collective knowledge and thinking between all members of the group. The characteristics of a Collaborative Classroom are as follows

• Shared Knowledge among Teacher & Students
• Shared Authority among Teacher & Students
• Teachers as Mediators
  
• Heterogeneous Groups