Key Points
Benefits of group work
- Learn content at deeper levels
- Learn how groups function productively
- Learn how to work well with others
- Build relationships
- For school going students group work can enhance
Grouping groups
- Teacher formed
- Pros - Allows various skills and knowledge to be combined
- Develops trust
- Random
- Student formed
- Pros - Encourages participation;Empowerment;Quicker to start
- Cons - Off topic; Loners
- Depends on group, subject, weigh of assignment, not appropriate for subjects that require individual skill
- Can give option to do test alone or as group
- Pros - Lowers anxiety
- Cons
- Lowers motivation
- Why does group work have such a Bad Rep
- Some students dominate groups and others go along even if they don’t agree
- Not even distribution of work
- Can be successful if
there is proper training, assigned roles, power to “fire”
- Set clear guidelines and roles
- Positive
- Face to face
- schedule
- Size of group, pairs vs groups
- How it is assessed
- Marked
- Participtaion
- Informal learning tool
- Individual, group or both
- Use Kagan structures
- Communication
- Co-operation
- Listening skills
- Time management
- Common drive to succeed
Benefits of group work
- www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/five-things-students-can-learn-through-group-work
- http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrends/cooperative_learning/kagan/
- https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130715115834-69244073-getting-colleagues-to-carry-their-weight
- http://www.assetproject.info/learner_methodologies/during/groupwork.htm
- http://sydney.edu.au/education_social_work/groupwork/docs/BenefitsOfGW.pdf
- http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/cl/story/middlecc/TSCMD.htm
- http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/03/group.html
- http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/better-group-work-experiences-begin-with-how-the-groups-are-formed/
- http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/group-work-are-student-selected-groups-more-effective
- http://superteacherstuff.blogspot.ca/2007/03/ways-to-group-students-quickly-and.html
- Speaking of Teaching. (1999). STANFORD UNIVERSITY
NEWSLETTER ON TEACHING, 1-4
- http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/group-testing-taking-options-consider/
- http://courses.durhamtech.edu/tlc/learningmatters/collaborative_testing.pdf
Why does group work have such a Bad Rep
- http://www.thedailytouch.com/india/7-reasons-why-students-hate-group-work/
- http://www.cte.cornell.edu/teaching-ideas/engaging-students/collaborative-learning.html
- http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/why-students-hate-groups/
- http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning-sacramento-group-dynamics
- http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/lone-wolfs-approach-group-work/
- http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/03/group.html.
- http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrends/cooperative_learning/kagan/
- http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/group-work-ineffective-try-pairing-students-for-better-accountability-learning/
- http://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/dr_spencer_kagan/281/Kagan-Structures-A-Miracle-of-Active-Engagement
- http://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/dr_spencer_kagan/267/From-Lessons-to-Structures-A-Paradigm-Shift-for-21st-Century-Education
- http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/assessinglearning/03/group.html
- https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-resources/teaching-tips/alternatives-lecturing/group-work/implementing-group-work-classroom
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