Cooperative and

Experiential Learning
ICE BREAKER
“SHARE IT”
Share your experience.
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning allows many
opportunities to develop learners’
interpersonal skills. It would give them
experiences on how they can properly
interact with the others and at the same time
listen and learn from their group mates.
 Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning is also a type of
constructivist teaching because it allows the
creation and innovation of knowledge
through group interaction and active
participation of each member.
Cooperative Learning
In the classroom, a cooperative learning
lesson involves students working in small
groups to accomplish a learning task. The
task is assigned by the teacher with clear
directions. Students then work on the task
together with defined roles.
Cooperative Learning
When the cooperative learning group
completes the learning task, the teacher
evaluates the results. That evaluation needs
to include some type of format to determine
of the students accomplish their learning
goals (i.e. rubrics).
Cooperative Learning
If each student sitting in the group isn’t held
responsible for helping complete their
portion of their learning task, then it isn’t
truly “cooperative learning”.
 PROPONENTS OF
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
❏An American philosopher and educator
❏Co-founder of the philosophical
movement ‘pragmatism’
❏A pioneer in functional psychology
❏An innovative theorist of democracy

JOHN DEWEY
 PROPONENTS OF
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
❏A leader of the progressive movement in
education in the US.
❏He was an antecedent of cooperative learning
who emphasized that authentic learning was
socially constructed and researchers who
sought to build a fundamental understanding

JOHN DEWEY of how groups work.

 BENEFITS OF
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
❏Promotion of social interaction
❏Build-up of student’s self-confidence
❏Improvement of collaborative skills
❏Improvement of decision-making skills of
students
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
STRATEGIES
❏PAIR-SHARE
Students collaborate with an ‘elbow’ partner or a person close
by. Students can discuss a question or topic and share with
the whole class.
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
STRATEGIES
❏SMALL GROUPS (Quads)
Students are assigned roles within the group so that they can
divide and conquer the learning task at hand.
 Features of Cooperative
Learning
Students are Each member is It allows learners
challenged to give creativity and
actively engaged,
his or her best innovation because
thus, developing in
because it can create they interact with
each member, a
a healthy and people their age,
cooperative spirit. competitive spirit. peers, or classmates.
 Features of Cooperative
Learning
It reduces
It develops positivity
like open- pressure from
mindedness, humility, work and creates
and give-and-take a positive
attitude, as well as
classroom
listening skills.
atmosphere.
3 STAGES OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING

1. Teachers assign learners to groups.

2. Tasking is a vital component of cooperative

learning.

3. The working time and task collaboration should be an

active process.
 Experiential Learning
Learning by doing. That is the basis for experiential learning. Experiential
learning focuses on the idea that the best ways to learn things is by actually
having experiences. Those experiences then stick out in your mind and
help you retain information and remember facts. For teachers, creating
opportunities for your students to have experiences based on the things
they are learning is the key.
 Experiential Learning
Experiential learning includes actual hands-on activities that are still
considered the most effective means of learning. Experiences that are
direct and purposeful are still the learners’ best opportunity to master a
concept or a skill. Direct and purposeful experiences are rich experiences
that the senses bring, from which ideas, concepts, generalizations are
constructed (Dale, 1969).
 Experiential Learning
Realities can be brought to the classroom through the planned activities of
the
teacher. In planning the delivery of a lesson or topic, the way experiences
are processed and used in the classroom makes it easier for the learner to
internalize what has been taught. They can see and feel that what is being
learned is a part if their real-life situations. Experiences through the planned
activities of the teacher is a way of achieving a goal or objective in learning.
Learning by doing, then, is an essential element in discovering and
constructing new knowledge and concepts.
 PROPONENTS OF
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
❏A psychologist and educational theorist
who is perhaps best known for his
experiential learning.
❏He is also known for his learning style
inventory that remains quite popular among
educators today.
DAVID KOLB
 PROPONENTS OF
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
❏His main contributions to the field of
psychology include:
- Experiential learning theory
- Kolb’s learning styles
- Kolb’s learning style
inventory
DAVID KOLB
 Kolb’s Learning Theory
Experiential learning theory works in four stages - concrete learning,
reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active
experimentation. The first two stages of the cycle involve grasping an
experience, the second two focus on transforming an experience. Kolb
argues that effective learning is seen as the learner goes through the
cycle, and that they can enter into the cycle at any time.
 Kolb’s Learning Theory
❖Concrete learning is when a learner gets a new experience, or
interprets a past experience in a new way.
❖Reflective observation comes next, where the learner reflects on their
experience personally. They use the lens of their experience and
understanding to reflect on what this experience means.
 Kolb’s Learning Theory
❖Abstract conceptualization happens as the learner forms new ideas or
adjusts their thinking based on the experience and their reflection about
it.
❖Active experimentation is where the learner applies the new ideas to
the world around them, to see if there are any modifications to be
made. This process can happen over a short period of time, or even
over a long span of time.
 BENEFITS OF
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
❏Opportunity to immediately apply knowledge.
❏Promotion of teamwork.
❏Improved motivation
❏Opportunity for reflection.
❏Real world practice.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
STRATEGIES
Field trips Role playing
Art projects Reflection and journaling
Science experiments Internship opportunities
Mock cities and trials Interactive classroom games
 EXPERIENCE
An inclusive teacher is one who takes into
consideration all the unique characteristics of its
learners. To do this, he or she has to look into their
individual learning needs, strengths, cognitive
abilities, skills, potentials, and limitations. This is
surely a very challenging task for all teachers.
One way of addressing this is through the
application of one’s knowledge in the
different learning theories in the teaching and
learning process.
 Summary
Collaborative and experiential learning are
lodged under constructivism. Hence,
experience plays an important role in
creating knowledge. When applied to
teaching, collaborative and experiential learning
activities have advantages especially in the 21st
Century classroom and in implementing the K to
12 curriculum. When learners are richly filled
with learning experiences, transfer of learning
will run easily and smoothly.
GROUP ACTIVITY
 Acrostic Poem
The students will be divided into two groups.
Each group will prepare an acrostic poem about
what they learn from the discussion. The first
group will create an acrostic poem about the
word “Cooperative” while the other group will
create an acrostic poem about the word
“Experiential”.
QUIZ TIME!
DIRECTIONS: Read each
situation carefully. Write TRUE
if the statement is true and
FALSE if not.
1.John Dewey is the
proponent of
Cooperative learning
theory.
2. Learning by doing is the
basis for experiential
learning.
3. One of the benefits of
cooperative learning is
the improvement of
personal skills.
4. Kolb’s learning style
invention is one of
Kolb’s contribution in
the field of psychology.
5. Abstract conceptualization
happens as the learner forms new
ideas or adjusts their thinking based
on the experience and their reflection
about it.
6. Cooperative learning
allows few opportunities to
develop learners’
interpersonal skills.
7. Small groups is a strategy in
cooperative learning wherein students
are assigned roles within the group so
that they can divide and conquer the
learning task at hand.
8. The four stages of Kolb’s
learning theory are concrete
learning, reflective observation,
abstract conceptualization, and
active participation.
9. Simulation practice
is one of the benefits of
experiential learning.
 10. David Kolb is the
proponent of
experiential learning
theory.
Answer:
1.TRUE 6. FALSE
2.TRUE 7. TRUE
3.FALSE 8. FALSE
4.FALSE 9. FALSE
5.TRUE 10. TRUE
ASSIGNMENT
DIRECTIONS: Read each situation carefully. Identify if the situations how cooperative or experiential
learning. Write Co-Learning if it shows Cooperative Learning and Exp-Learning if it shows Experiential
Learning.

1. A teacher implements a peer tutoring in her class. The student who did well in the last unit was paired
with someone who needs help. They meet up everyday after class to study and as time goes by, the students
who first needs help is learning and improving in many ways with the help of the other student.
2. The students were assigned to create a painting. The teacher told them to go on the campus grounds to
find their subject inspiration.
3. The teacher grouped the class into two. Each group was assigned a topic that they need to report. The
students set to meet on the weekends to do their report. When the day came that they have to present, they did
very well that the teacher complimented their presentation.
4. The Science Majors recently held a class in a laboratory wherein they made an experiment.
5. The school provided an educational field trip for students to Museums in Manila. It is to comply with the
requirements for the Art student’s semestral project.
Thank You!