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Improving the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning in become very important issues to all teachers to implement this in their classrooms. This research aims to find out the teacher’s perspective of cooperative learning in primary schools. Two teachers will be participating on this research to share their perspective and experience based on implementing cooperative learning structure in their lesson for primary school students. This study employs qualitative research method, and three instruments were used to collect the data, which are observations, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. Three research questions were posed and through findings all the research questions were answered. The implication of this is that the teachers contribute greatly to students’ involvement in the cooperative learning classroom. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made towards creating awareness and best practices to celebrate teacher’s success and steps to overcome challenges in implementing cooperative learning in the classroom
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To Cite this Article: Thomeeran, H., Ghazali, N. H. M., Selvarajoo, P. C. B., Ponnen, V., & Aziz, S. F. A. (2023). Exploring Teacher Perspective in Implementing Cooperative Learning Structure in Primary Schools. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 12(2), 2801–2810.
In-Text Citation: (Thomeeran et al., 2023)
To Cite this Article: Thomeeran, H., Ghazali, N. H. M., Selvarajoo, P. C. B., Ponnen, V., & Aziz, S. F. A. (2023). Exploring Teacher Perspective in Implementing Cooperative Learning Structure in Primary Schools. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 12(2), 2801–2810.