This is a shot of the puzzle-making process. 
Cooperative learning is a teaching method that eleminates competitive aspects of the classroom. It is designed to capitalize on the inherent diversity of students in the classroom. The assignment given to my German 1 students was to reassemble a broken dialogue given a few clues. Each student was given a note card on which sentence fragments were written in German. The sentences on the notecards were part of a story that began with a dialogue between two women in a German village. The teacher reads the first part of the story (in German), and the students are then given the rest of the period to put the puzzle together.
The teacher is available for steering the students in the right direction and clarifying grammatical inquiries. In this model, the students were not separated into smaller groups. They were left to strategize with one another about the best method for completing the task. Two classes out of four completed the puzzle. Of the two successful classes, only one successfully incorporated all members of the class throughout the duration of the assignment.
Success Indicators:
In conclusion, this particular lesson produced stunning results. Quiz and test grades from this chapter demonstrated that an overwhelming majority of the students had a working understanding of how to form the past tense in German. Further, I noticed a change in the way the classes interacted with one another. Activities such as these bring a class together and promote peer teaching.