Cooperative groups is no easy fix. Sometimes the class are great, sometimes the majority are and sometimes it all falls apart. But I think that it is something that needs encouragement and needs nourishing. Reminders about roles and responsibilities to reinforce expectations, children to really understand what the process will be in order for their group to be successful needs to be explicitly explained and discussed each time. So we will persist.
-
Week of October 2nd At the start of the week I put the children into groups and set them the task of finding out about Malala Yousafaszi a... -
Children were working in research groups finding out about the reproduction parts of a plant. We reviewed each taking on a responsibility wi...
-
During out global read aloud we had arranged to skype our school in America. Each class needed to present (in groups) to the other school wh...
No comments:
Post a Comment