• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Flight Literacy

Flight Training Educational Materials

  • Home
  • Basic Flight Training
    • Basic Aircraft Flight
    • Aeronautical Knowledge
    • Airplane Ownership – General Aviation Information
  • Advanced Flight Training
    • Instrument Flight Rules
    • Instrument Procedures
    • Flight Navigation
    • Aircraft Weight and Balance
    • Advanced Avionics
    • Risk Management
    • Aviation Instructor Training
    • Glider Flying
    • Weight-Shift Control Aircraft Flight
    • Helicopter Flight Training
    • Advisory Circulars
  • Training Aids
  • Tip Jar
You are here: Home / Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Training / The Teaching Process / Cooperative or Group Learning Method
Regretfully, FlightLiteracy (formerly FlightLearnings) will be turning out the lights after fifteen years. Google, in its infinite wisdom, has chosen to remove FlightLiteracy from its search results (the claim is that the content on this site is spam). We appealed their decision to shut us down, to no avail.

Unfortunately, since Google has a monopoly over internet search, this means that traffic levels on the site will drop to a level that makes maintaining it uneconomic. As time progresses, we will no longer be able to maintain the server space and will remove the site from the internet. Thanks to all who have supported us over the years.

To fight back against the monopolistic practices of companies like Google, we recommend using a competing search engine such as Brave (you get the added benefit of not being spied on by Big Tech) and advocating for anti-trust legislation from your representatives.

Cooperative or Group Learning Method

Filed Under: The Teaching Process

Cooperative or group learning organizes students into small groups who can work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning. Research indicates that students completing cooperative learning group tasks tend to have higher test scores, higher self-esteem, improved social skills, and greater comprehension of the subjects they are studying. Perhaps the most significant characteristic of group learning is that it continually requires active participation of the student in the learning process.

How to Fly an AirplaneFlight Literacy Recommends

Rod Machado's How to Fly an Airplane Handbook – Learn the basic fundamentals of flying any airplane. Make flight training easier, less expensive, and more enjoyable. Master all the checkride maneuvers. Learn the "stick and rudder" philosophy of flying. Prevent an airplane from accidentally stalling or spinning. Land a plane quickly and enjoyably.

Conditions and Controls

In spite of its advantages, success with cooperative or group learning depends on conditions and controls. First of all, instructors need to begin planning early to determine what the student group is expected to learn and to be able to do on their own. The group task may emphasize academic achievement, cognitive abilities, or physical skills, but the instructor must use clear and specific learning objectives to describe the knowledge and/or abilities the students are to acquire and then demonstrate on their own.

The following conditions and controls are useful for cooperative learning, but do not need to be used every time an instructor assigns a group learning project:

  1. Small, heterogeneous groups
  2. Clear, complete instructions of what students are to do, in what order, with what materials, and when appropriate—what students are to do as evidence of their mastery of targeted content and skills
  3. Student perception of targeted objectives as their own, personal objectives
  4. The opportunity for student success
  5. Student access to and comprehension of required information
  6. Sufficient time for learning
  7. Individual accountability
  8. Recognition and rewards for group success
  9. Time after completion of group tasks for students to systematically reflect upon how they worked together as a team

In practice, cooperative or group learning in aviation training is normally modified to adapt to school policy or for other valid reasons. For example, collaborative, student-led, instructor-led, or working group strategies are alternatives to a pure form of group learning. In these examples, the student leader or the instructor serves as a coach or facilitator who interacts with the group, as necessary, to keep it on track or to encourage everyone in the group to participate.

-->

Primary Sidebar

SEARCH FLIGHT LITERACY

Basic Flight Training

Basic Aircraft Flight
Aeronautical Knowledge
Airplane Ownership - General Aviation
Training Aids

Advanced Flight Training

Instrument Flight Rules
Instrument Procedures
Flight Navigation
Aircraft Weight and Balance
Advanced Avionics
Risk Management
Aviation Instructor Training
Glider Flying
Weight-Shift-Control Aircraft
Helicopter Flight Training
Aircraft Mechanic (flight-mechanic.com)

Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use
Easy Campfire Recipes | Recipe Workbook


Please help support our work
HIT THE TIP JAR

Copyright © 2023 FlightLiteracy.com




.