Study On Strategies Of Cooperative Learning Validity In Geography Teaching

Cooperative learning is an instructional theory and strategy adopted by many countries. Recently, with the deep development of China's basic education revolution, cooperative learning has been an important subject. Nowadays, it is one of the three learning modes that advocated by the new curriculum reform progressing in China. The author has made a deep investigation by studying class-teaching videos, questionnaire papers and interviews in cooperative learning in middle school's geography classes, and has found many problems, for instance, formalization, singleness, unbalanced extents of students' participation, the unsuitable role of teachers and the lack of learning evaluation. The author has also analyzed the reasons. It is effected by the teachers, students, themes of the cooperative learning and the learning environment in the process of cooperative learning. According to these effective aspects as well as the practical steps, the author brings out certain incentive strategies to develop the geography teaching in middle schools.(1) teaching circumstance supporting. It encompasses: the native study of pedagogy theory under the current situation of China, the teachers' training system established by educational organization plus school's support and teachers' mutual cooperation.(2) the strategies of preparing: It is divided into teachers' preparation and students' preparation., in which the most important is to choose meaningful cooperative themes, to opt suitable ways of teaching geography on the basis of teaching content and to form teams.(3) the strategies of carrying out: It contains grasping right opportunities and the teachers' effective organization in the process of cooperative learning.