Indicator of Students’ Learning Activities

that to complete the task is needed a good cooperation from every members of the group. 2 Personal responsibility Because the success of the group depends on the members of the group, every member should have their own responsibility. 3 Face-to-face Interaction Cooperative learning gives space and chance to every members of the group to have face-to-face interaction in order to exchange information. This face-to-face interaction gives experience to the students of every group to do cooperation, appreciate every difference, and make use of every strength owned by the members, and fill the weakness of every member. 4 Participation and Communication Cooperative learning helps students to be able to do active participation and communication. This ability is important for their basic in the society. c. Characteristics of Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning is different from the other learning model. The differences can be seen from the teaching and learning process which emphasizes on the process of cooperation in a group. The goal that should be achieved is not only focus on the academic, in the meaning of definition of the material, but also focus on the use of cooperation to understand the material. The presence of cooperation becomes the specific characteristics of cooperative learning. The characteristics of cooperative learning according to Wina Sanjaya 2009: 242-244 is explained as below: a Team-based Learning Cooperative learning is team-based learning. Team is used as a media to reach the goal. For that reason, team should make every members learn. Every member must help each other to reach the goals. The success of the learning is determined by the success of the team. Every team is set as heterogenic to make the students get experience from others, give and accept others, thus every student will give contribution for the success of the team. b Cooperative-management based Management has 4 functions. These are planning, organizing, implementing, and controlling. Planning shows that cooperative learning need a good planning to make the teaching and learning process runs effective. While organizing shows that cooperative learning is about doing the task together. Thus it is important to distribute the job and the responsibility for every member. Implementing here shows that cooperative learning must be done based on the planning includes the teaching and learning steps agreed. And the function of controlling shows that in the cooperative learning the teacher can determine the criteria of successful learning through test or non test.