This in turn helps group learners to also use their shared experiences (peer teaching) as examples to illustrated and cement a learning point. Group learning develops and promotes group problem solving skills with team building skills both with individuals and groups. Good group learning is inclusive and promotes different approaches/styles to learning to encompasses and ensure diversity and equality.…
2. Group work activities and projects support student learning by having us learn with our peers as an additional option besides learning from the course materials and the professor. Learning with our peers also helps us learn together as a real class because we will get to interact with each other.…
The classroom environment which I am student teaching is in a general education fifth grade class. There are 26 students ranging in ages 10-11 years old. There are four students with Individualized Education Plans and six students who are English Language Learners. The school day begins at 8:15 AM and end at 2:45 PM, Monday thru Thursday and 8:15 AM to 1:30 PM on Friday.…
This activity can help influence teaching strategies and overall student learning because it is a team-based activity, not excluding Phillip, but rather, possesses developmental value for all of the children. Due to the team-based exercise, learning can occur in a child’s natural environment with his or her own classmates. Learning and teaching frequently occurs in everyday experiences and contexts, and should therefore be taken into consideration when formulating activities to encourage developmental progression (p. 252)…
The purpose of this strategy would be to have the students work together to arouse curiosity and help them learn the material. Sometimes students will be more eager to learn if they are working within a small group setting. It gives them a more individualized approach to the material than in a whole class setting. They may be more motivated to participate within a small group setting. To apply this strategy, I would separate the students into multiple small groups of 3-4 students each. Then I would assign a worksheet or problem for them to work through together. They would then have an additional problem or worksheet to work on individually and when finished use peer review to review their work.…
Homework assignments and projects will be group work. But, no free riders please! Every one in the group should contribute equally. Even though in general each member in a group will get the same grade as others, if a certain member did not do his/her share, the other group members could remove him/her from the group and this individual would obtain zero grade. The instructor may also demand the group members to state their individual contributions to the project/assignment in order to determine a fair distribution of the grades.…
Before sending the students off to work groups, I will explain the in class activity.…
It is important to use specific methods to insure the success of these students. Putting the students with their peers in groups so they can better understand what they are needed to do in order complete the assignment and also are able to develop social skills as well.…
The students will complete problem of the day. The problem will be related to what the students learned the day before and will be posted on the board and they will copy it into their notebooks and solve it. When everybody has it solved they will get with a partner sitting near them, that has previously been assigned to them, and compare their answers and how they solved the problem. After a few minutes the class will come together and a few students will share how they solved the problem using the document camera. They will speak into the red cat speaker system while they are talking.…
We are third (or fourth) year students, so you can say that everybody knows how to work in a project group. However, this doesn’t mean that everybody will act like that. Sometimes there are people in a group who are less motivated then others, or people who are dealing with personal problems. Everybody has their own role/function within the project. To make sure everybody performs…
the sharing of ideas and problem solving skills, as the student might feel less intimidated and more…
Small group method- I found this to be a very effective method in order to get people talking and sharing ideas, this can be used an icebreaker and I feel that the ideas that the groups come up with help to establish effective learning environment ground rules. I would use this method should it be appropriate in the circumstances.…
Learning activity; Sometimes, the teacher may set up activities that are not that suitable for the children, who are involved in my group learning. Therefore, I need to change the activity, to make it more achievable for pupils by going back and checking with the teacher. If this is not possible, I need to adapt and change what they have been asked to do in order to help them to achieve the task.…
I also surveyed a few teachers that also believed that students learn better from “hands on activities”. Some teachers prefer to do labs and projects to help students get a better understanding of the topic that they are learning.…
One example my mom has done in her classroom before was putting the children into pods. Where four desks would face each other to form a large square. This method was used to help support group work and to improve communication and interaction between the students. By working in groups it would but it also improves their thought process by the students trying to figure the questions out on their own instead of directly asking the teacher first when they see a question they are not able to do immediately.…