On Practice Of Cooperative Learning In New Geography Course Teaching

In this article I'd like to discuss the practice and experience of cooperative learning in two years of implementing of the new course in geography teaching.The traditional elitism education that lays special emphasis on competition,working by one-self and excellent school records and neglects the goodwill function of education,doesn't help to enhance the students'awareness of cooperation or build good interpersonal relationships.Mutuai study method is initiated in the new geography course.The students are encouraged to have all kinds of discussions among themselves so as to advance in their study,and they are also required to take their own study and cooperative exchange as a major study method.By introducing the cooperative learning into the classroom,we have studied for two years its model,its strategies and the role the teacher should play.Our aim is to prove the possibility of cooperative learning in new geography teaching,to evaluate the geography information the students are trained to collect and conclude,and to know how the students' ability to solve geography problems develops,how their awareness of cooperation increases and how their creating capacity develops.It is clearly shown in their summing up their experience,little academic paper,self-edited tabloid,self-made multimedia show,topographic models that the students have much changed in their behavior towards study and their conduct has become more graceful,too.As they increase thrie cooperation awareness,the students get on much better than ever before.The better students have made more progress on what has already been achieved while the slow students have gained self confidence in giving full play to their skills in the group.Now the students show greater interest in learning geography.For example,their ability to gather information,sum up their experience and solve the problems has greatly improved,and so has their ability to act.