Overview
Group work fails for one reason: the group does the work and only one person learns. The student who already understood the content leads, the others defer, and the final product reflects the understanding of one person spread across the group's names.
Cooperative learning only works when the structure creates genuine interdependence: each person holds a piece of the learning that the others need. The Cooperative Learning Structure Designer builds that interdependence into the lesson architecture — through role design, resource distribution, and accountability systems that make helping a strategic advantage rather than altruism.
What you get: - Structure selection with rationale (Jigsaw, Think-Pair-Share, Numbered Heads, STAD, or custom) - Group composition logic: how to form groups for this specific task - Role specifications with cognitive function per role - Resource interdependence mechanism: how to ensure no one has all the information - Individual accountability: the mechanism that prevents one student from carrying the group - Group processing protocol: how groups reflect on their collaboration, not just their output - Assessment that measures individual learning from group activity
Built for: teachers, facilitators, and L&D designers using group structures to produce individual learning outcomes.