Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects.Use specific reasons and examples to supp

In the new education system, teachers believe in team work project to motivate students to learn lesson besides cooperation. We are living among a lot of other people and our attitudes toward them define the rate of our success in real life. Nowadays people are focusing on technology and science alone, while without humanities’ experiences we would not be able to do our duties. On the other hand, some people think that working with incapable co-workers is waste of time and energy so we should avoid it and try everything alone because at last we should do our tasks singularly. They assert that most famous scientists like Newton and Pascal, worked alone and nobody assisted them to finish their theories and accomplishments. Although both side of this argument have specific cons and pros, I advocate working together in classroom projects for following reasons.

To begin with, most scientific projects in all laboratories and industrial companies are designed to work together because science is very broad and we cannot learn all skills and information about them. If we just concentrate on particular subject, definitely we will lose a lot of good opportunities and achievements. For example, my husband studies biology at Harvard University and his major is cellular biology thus he is not skillful in molecular biology and when they work on cancer research, both specialties are necessary. If he cannot collaborate with his friends, he cannot find the proper subject for his research therefore he cannot defeat his thesis and graduate on certain deadline. As you can see, if teachers require students to learn cooperation in teamwork activities, they can use this skill afterwards, in next steps.

Moreover, there are a lot of vague issues that we do not know so if students consult with each other in projects, they can solve them better and learn some new techniques. Working with a talented partner encourages us to learn novel skills and improve our knowledge. For instance, when I was at high school, our chemistry teacher asked us to present some recent articles about organic components and necessitated us to work in group of three. I was a shy girl so I could not present our slides in front of others but my partners helped me to increase my self-confidence and taught me what to say. This experience showed me that friends in a group give countenance to us whenever we need them thus we would raise our abilities.

To wrap up, despite the fact that some people prefer to work alone and think that team work distracts them from the main goal, I adhere the idea of cooperation and companionship for mentioned reasons. In other words, I suggest that teachers compel their pupils to work together on projects and arouse them to learn this skill.