miércoles, 18 de febrero de 2015

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: 


  1. 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. 
  2. Let the students choose the group where they want to be. Althought this way is effective in sporadic group because it promotes the homogeneity. 
  3. 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:
  1. All the students have their place in the class.
  2. Nobody can judge a pupil by his/her way of learning. 
  3. All the students learn from others. 
  • Rules in the cooperative groups. for group work appropriately, they have to fulfill some rules, those are:
  1. Share everything.
  2. Raise the hand before talking.
  3. Whisper when they are working (don't confuse it with be in silence, it is not the same)
  4. Ask for help when needed. 
  5. Participate in all the task and activities of the team. 
  6. Accept the decision of the majourity.
  • JIGSAW. This is a technique of the Cooperative learning and has some steps:
  1. First, the class is divided into heterogenous groups formed by four or five people.
  2. Everymember of the group is given a specific topic.
  3. Each person go with other people of different team that have the same topic as him.
  4. The new group have to prepare their topic very well, as they were experts.
  5. 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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