Using Groups Effectively to Meet Learners

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Using Groups Effectively to Meet Learners Needs

• Mohammed Bin Abdul Wahab Secondary School for
  Boys

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Goals for this session

• To know why do we use groups.
• To learn about different ways you can group your
  students.
• To use some suitable group activities that you
  can try yourself in your lessons.
• To think about how you can use your own ideas in
  your subject area, in group

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Why do we use groups?

• Group learning can improve the overall quality of
  student learning
• Increase productivity
• Higher level reasoning
• Creativity
• Problem solving

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Grouping strategy

• Groups can be created by teacher selection,
  student selection, random allocation or a
  combination of the three.
• Tell students to collect themselves into groups
  according to a given number.
• You can use colours to designate specific
  students in each group.

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Student roles in a group

• Leader

Information collector
Scribe
Reporter
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The obstacles that can face a teacher

• Students sometimes talk a lot with each other.
• Just one or two students and the other depend on
  them.

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Recommended solutions

• Using attractive activities.
• The teacher should ensure that all students
  participating and doing their roles and encourage
  them.
• Creating the spirit of competitions.

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Suggested activities

• Read and talk through the sheet with some
  suggested activities on them. Discuss how useful
  each would be in your own subject area.
• Add to this list with your own topics / ideas for
  group activities
• Be ready to share your ideas for next weeks
  teaching.