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KIP on Learning
The initiative supports schools in implementing the Complex Instruction Program (KIP) to facilitate high-level group work in heterogeneous classrooms, promoting equitable and inclusive education for all students.
About the Complex Instruction Program
The Complex Instruction Programme (CIP) is a special cooperative learning method that aims to effectively educate children from different social backgrounds and with different abilities and performance levels. It was originally developed at Stanford University in San Francisco (Palo Alto).
Through special cooperative techniques and experiences of success, CIP aims to improve children’s attitude towards learning. This is achieved through carefully prepared activities based on diverse group work, which encourage children to think together and come up with creative ideas, while the teacher is challenged to devise and prepare tasks and topics. Before the start of the session, it is important to clarify the subtasks and to reinforce and raise awareness among the students that ‘no one is equally good at everything and that everyone can find a task that they are fully capable of solving.’
During the sessions, groups of 3-4 students are formed and, taking on different roles (assistant teacher, reporter, note-taker, material manager), they solve practical tasks/examples to master the curriculum/knowledge, helping each other and drawing on each other’s abilities. Through joint problem solving, children can learn problem-solving methods and task-solving strategies from each other. The tasks are not only based on writing, reading and mathematical skills, but also require manual dexterity, visual and spatial orientation skills and other practical skills.
