The Effect of Collaborative Teaching Method on the Development of Social Skills in the Social Studies Course of fifth Grade Elementary School Girls

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cooperative teaching method on the development of social skills in students' social studies course.

To achieve this goal, fifth grade elementary school female students in the city of Estahban (2019-2020) have been studied. This is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test post-test design and it has experimental and control groups. All of the fifth grade elementary school female students in Estahban (2019-2020) were the statistical population of this study, among which 59 students were selected through convenience sampling method. Before the process of learning, a Gresham and Elliott Social Skills Questionnaire (teacher and student form) (1990) was run as a pre-test in both groups. The data was analyzed using a covariance analysis in SPSS.

The results of this study show that the Collaborative Teaching Method, with an error tolerance of 0.05, has a significant effect on the development of all components of the students’ social skills, including cooperation, assertiveness, self-control and empathy, and this method is more effective than other traditional teaching methods on the students' social skills.

Since the collaborative teaching method has a great impact on the development of student’s social skills, it is a good alternative to the traditional teaching method.