Cooperative learning and the Connection with Social Learning Theory In my profession group learning assist the student on how to interact with their peers and members of the health care team. It helps them to identify what knowledge they know and focus on what they need to learn. It helps them to incorporate skills that are necessary for the future. It assists the student in figuring out what was done and how to make it right. Bandura, the well-known theorist stated that learning through modeling is more a matter of abstracting rules than mimicry. It is not simply “monkey see, monkey do” (Bandura, 1995). I have found that cooperative learning is the effective instructional strategy to helped students to role model behavior that needs to be done before going into the hospital. I used simulation as a tool to emphasize social construction of knowledge. Bandura, A. (1993). Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning. Educational Psychologist, 28, 117-148.