Presentations 17/02/2015

I'm going to talk about the different main ideas that appeared during the presentations of the Cooperative learning last Tuesday. The main topics are: Inclusive philosophy, the different types to create the teams, the rules of the class, the jigsaw and the Web Quest.

INCLUSIVE PHILOSOPHY

To beginning with, when we see a class we have to take into account that there are a lot of different types of students that are completely unlike the others. The teacher has to know how to confront this situation, teaching the students different values that show them that despite of the fact that there are physically different, they deserve the same rights.

CREATING THE TEAMS

When we create the teams, we have to keep in mind the various criteria that exist. One group talk about the sociogram, which consists of knowing the relationships between the students by making them questions and pay attention to their behaviour. Other way of creating the groups is by making three columns: in the first one you put the smart ones, in the second one the people who need help, and the others in the third; next, you pick up one from the two first columns and two from the third one. This creates mix groups of different kinds of people.

THE RULES

They are essential and students should respect them. The main idea that the teacher creates and decides this rules with the students, they may not see this like an obligation, but something that will help to group in a better way that improve what they are doing.

JIGSAW

This is a technique, usually use in Cooperative learning. Each student has a topic in which he has to be the expert and know everything about. Once they have investigated and have the information, they create group of experts that put in common all the information and compare it. Then, when they are real experts about the topic, they return to their base teams to explain what they have learnt to the others, to share the knowledge.

WEB QUEST

First I didn’t understand at all the meaning of this type of web, but now I think I finally get it. Is an instrument that teachers can use to share with the students the activities they should do at home. In this web page the teacher upload all the information about the topics and then the activities, so that the students don’t have any doubt when they see it and start to do the exercises.