ABSTRACT
Some myths can be extremely harmful and can damage good people as well as valuable ideas. Cooperative learning has been demonized by some folks, primarily through the repetition of untrue statements, myths about classroom collaboration. Learning to collaborate with others in order to accomplish a goal is the way good families and productive groups operate. Unfortunately, well meaning people do make untrue statements about cooperative learning. These falsehoods can come from inaccurate perception or from observing cooperative learning that has been badly done. This chapter presents some questions asked to the author by the teachers attending workshops. His answers came from his own experience in the cooperative classroom and are the result of an imperfect person's thinking. Perhaps both the questions and the answers will help you in your quest to have students learn cooperatively.
