Yesterday, three groups of class did their respective presentation. Those groups were: "The Differents", "La Banda del Patio" and the "Rigatone's Angels". All them talked about some interesting topics:
- How to form a base team. One group explained it and they said there there are three ways:
- The sociometric test. This consists in that student make a test were they put their hobbies, skills, preferences. All this is for the teacher could see the students who are more similiar and think in how to agrupate them.
- Let the students choose the group where they want to be. Althought this way is effective in sporadic group because it promotes the homogeneity.
- Form three columns. This promotes the heterogeneity because pupils have to make three columns, in one of them will be the students who have a higher permormance, in the second one, the students who have a lower performance and in the last one, the students who has a average performance. So, teacher has to choose one pupil of the first column, one of the second and two of the third column.
- Philosophy of the inclusive classroom. Is necessary to have clear the real meaning of what want to achieve the Cooperative Learning. We can resume in those points:
- All the students have their place in the class.
- Nobody can judge a pupil by his/her way of learning.
- All the students learn from others.
- Rules in the cooperative groups. for group work appropriately, they have to fulfill some rules, those are:
- Share everything.
- Raise the hand before talking.
- Whisper when they are working (don't confuse it with be in silence, it is not the same)
- Ask for help when needed.
- Participate in all the task and activities of the team.
- Accept the decision of the majourity.
- JIGSAW. This is a technique of the Cooperative learning and has some steps:
- First, the class is divided into heterogenous groups formed by four or five people.
- Everymember of the group is given a specific topic.
- Each person go with other people of different team that have the same topic as him.
- The new group have to prepare their topic very well, as they were experts.
- Finally, each student come back to their first group and explain him/her topic to his/her classmates and the other members of the group do the same. So, with this everyone learn of everyone.
- Webquest. Some teams have explained about webquest. I think this is a very necessary resorce because we mix the subject with the new technologies and is more interesting for pupils. Students can work in a different way, they have to investigate and the teacher can guide them by this plataform.
This resource has some parts: introduction, task, process, resources and evaluation. Moreover it promotes the
cooperative work , autonomy of students and includes an authentic assessment.
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