Cooperative learning may best be defined as small heterogeneously mixed working groups of learners learning collaborative skills while working towards a common academic goal or task.The teacher's role in cooperative learning changes from a knowledge provider to a facilitator who guides the learner both academically and socially.Cooperative learning: promotes the success of the individual student and group members and forms personal bonds.promotes valuable social skills, higher-order thinking, the practice of new concepts, processes, and information.increases students motivation, promotes understanding, and psychological adjustment among the students.fosters support among the students, makes them help one another to learn and rewards successful group participation.Hence, it could be concluded that cooperative learning strategies focus on students helping one another to learn.