After reading about both methods, I really liked the cognitive apprenticeship more. I think as a Co-Op facilitator, I identified with the key practices of this strategy. I know that students learn and retain a greater knowledge with hands-on experience and it helps to assimilate what they already know. This allows for the mentor to correct and enrich what the student can already perform without the student feeling like all the knowledge is new which causes some students to give up.
The teaching strategies described in the readings were modeling, scaffolding and coaching. This allows a building process that students will be comfortable with. It also gives value to the information that is being learned. Students usually want to know why something really matters and this method answers this questions but also lets them put it into practice.
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