In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.
Lilian KatzCurriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience
Lilian KatzYoung children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.
Lilian Katz