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My students are usually involved in group work when we develop chemistry laboratory projects. I try to form balanced groups in their diversity.  They all learn to cooperate through discussion and develop respect for others' points of view.

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My students work in a collaborative way and the motivation give them responsibility each other

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I involved the students to built a map online about a history topic. each theme of topic was been assigned to build all together their learning

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I involved the students to built a map online about a history topic. each theme of topic was been assigned to build all together their learning

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We are developing/managing a small farm in school, and several classes collaborate to grow crops and beautify it

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As I currently teach Art, I always facilitate students to work in groups. Sometimes they work individually, sometimes in pairs and sometimes in groups. One of the group activities that I have done recently is the COOPERATIVE CLOWN, where each student drew a part of the clown.

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I like the students are involved in know about their skills to work in collaborative way

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Group work is present in every step of the activity of making a virtual business (SEN/JA program). Students work in different groups simulating the functions of different sectors within a business.

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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Decorative panel with several figures with what we find in nature and should put in the right place.

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Group work is facilitated when students arrange teams to compete in different ICT competitions organised by the Ministry. Currently a team of students created a video for Internet Safety. Also another team is competing in a local competition of creating an educational game about Internet safety. Group work allows students to be assigned or naturally get roles in the team. An essential skill that teamwork has to offer.

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I often use  the cooperative learning. The desks are arrenged in groups so my students can work in team.

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The desks in my classroom are always arranged in groups, so, at any moment during a lesson we can switch from individual work to team work

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Yes, I facilitate group work from time to time.This takes time to do an activity in the classroom.Reading this section I became aware that I should asign roles to each student from the group in order to make the team more effective.Students usually like working in groups.When working in groups , the teacher can act as a facilitator or as a guide as explained in this video.

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At the present moment I'm trying to share with teachers tools they can use to inspire collaborative work between students, like Padlet, Canvas, Classflow, where students can co-create designs, lessons, give their opinions, learn, work in groups with assigned projects, etc..

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When I plan a lesson I schedule different tasks (like a menu) to keep the focus and motivate my students:
1. brainstorming to introduce the topic , work in pairs or in groups to share ideas and do exercise
2. main activity ( develop soft skills ,contents skills, and build knowledge);
4. group presentation  to classmates
5. self and group assessment

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Before assigning a work to my students I always  divy up groups to make sure everyone is working.  I try not to intervene, but to observe instead. I think that these occasions can help to develop their social and communication skills

So I only intervene when someone find the work complex or to moderate a conversation.

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I always encourage collaboration among students. But sometimes I am not quite sure which roles to assign to team members.

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I divise class in different group working for a goal on a certa theme

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I divise class in different group working for a goal on a certa theme

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Project - based learning is important for us. It motivates pupils for successful collaboration & creative work. Enjoy our experience regarding to it made on 'Magisto'! :)

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To develop competences described in this section in my students, I often organize my lesson in cooperative learning. But every group has a different activity important for the final product. In this way, students are to work hard in this challenge and are motivated.

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There are some simple techniques to manage teamwork in a classroom. One of these is the cooperative learning: it is a methodology that allows us to increase the motivation and productivity of our students by creating working groups and assigning each group of tasks.

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Last year I was in charge of a training project. My students were divided into groups and each student had his own role. The project work was held at school and at a state museum and each group was responsible for a section of the museum. Each group worked on the recovery of the explanatory material content of the pieces of art in the museum. Then they studied the material in different languages ​​and have done their job as a tourist guide in the museum. My role was to encourage, motivate and follow the different groups, leaving even free choice during work. I believe that the supervision and motivation are essential. The girls involved were initially very fearful, and there were also conflicts within the groups, but in the end they have acquired good skills in mutual help and team work. Currently the students who have joined the project last year, do training and supervision of the groups estabilished this year. And they are very good facilitators!

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When developing a group work activity, I plan several steps:
1. Motivate students by doing a quick brainstorm/present the topic and share ideas on how to do it or how  or what can we do;
2. Divide students in groups and establish roles (who is responsible for what);
3. activity development- each group decides on what they will work on, dividing tasks among themselves (develop team work skills , and build knowledge);
4. Present their work to other classmates and assess their group work (what went wrong, what we could have done better).

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There is no doubt that working in groups are a key part of Entrepreneurial learning since one person do not have all the skills or knowledge or attitude. So teamwork teach sharing, communication skills, being humble, learning to listen actively, guide others, this sense of leadership, and the experience to work collaboratively

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working in group is very important because  permit to do a peer education  , develop a collaboration spirit  very important in modern society:

and increase the singolar  skill: 1+1 =3

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When we work on something in groups, I always start such work with the decision about the roles, but we do it at random. For example, today the leaders in groups are those whose birthday is in January, on the earliest day, the presenters are those, who have elder sisters and so on. In such a way, it is always fair, and my students try different roles.

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My students have to develop their business plans  working in teams,  and they need to be effective. To teach them to work in groups I develop various group activities, for example de Marshmallow challenge through which the students have fun and learn about teams.

Here you have an excellent web page designed by Antonio Guirao (@antonio_guirao), with a repository of activities focused on teaching how to work in teams. It is in spanish

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Working in groups helps students to learn from peers as well as collaborate to achieve common goals.

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I'm not facilitating a group work now, but I usually act in this way:
1. launch the topic, starting with a brainstorming
2. present the main points if necessary
3. split the class into groups and assign roles
4. prepare a sheet with activity and the main  instructions, time, etc
5. facilitate the group team
6. mange the discussion after the presentation of each group
7. prepare an overview with adjustments

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We are facilitating group work in our classrooms since our learning experiences about 'Structural cooperative learning structures' from Spencer Kagan. We shared our experiences with international partners in the Comenius project we coordinated in the past 'CoNetCom'

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When my students work in group there is usually always the most enterprising student who organizes the work and guide others and the other students are collaborators (who controls the outcome, those seeking new resources, who helps the organizer). As they work together, I try to be a facilitator for achieving their goal.

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Because of the subject I teach (English as a foreign language), collaboration and cooperation is an integral approach in my classes where I am more often a facilitator than a lecturer. Cooperation and collaboration are also very important in my own approach to learning how to teach: I am a very lucky and happy member of a group of teachers in my school that have chosen to work collaboratively to meet the challenges that our digital classes present. Three years ago we started with a pilot project for one class where students and teachers use iPads as pedagogical devices, collaborative platforms for sharing and creating content, non traditional approaches to classroom time activities that include flipped lessons, cooperative learning activities, etc. This year all my five classes are digital ones and I hope it will continue to be so also next year. What I find more challenging for the students is the approach that very naturally has developed lately to work always more for interdisciplinary and interclasses projects, where the groups are formed for common interests, common objectives. Giving roles is fundamental for the necessity of reaching the group objective, so is responsibility for each member's contribution. The real problem we have is the traditional evaluation system: grades rather than competence, testing rather than developing skills continue to worry families, students, teachers too.

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I try to integrate collaboration in activities involving group work in my class. They ususally can assign different roles between themselves. They keep track not to have same role a before and it is working really great.

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I try to be a facilitator with respect to team work. I think it is very important that students cooperate because they will need these communication and negotiation skills in their future jobs. Moreover, students can profit from diversity, they learn from each other (equal to equal).

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Different topics and special projects have been developed by students working in groups. This year in particular I used a lot cooperative learning and peer-education  in my classes  to achieve PPT and video analysis some modules of our French language work plan . I always tried to make heterogeneous groups helping them to create the best conditions to proceed in an organized way and facilitating the collaborative spirit and sense of responsibility.

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I can be a facilitator with my students, in particular when we work in projects I divide the class in groups and in each group there are some roles to respect...but my big problem is I can't be facilitator with my colleagues especially for projects based learning that I love...I find many problems to share them with adults....I believe in these kind of projects because through them students can develop good competences in real contexts.

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I always use it in my science lessons. I give the students different roles such as the; leader, reporter, speaker, designer, saler, cooker, enginear, mother, teacher and others.

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My students are usually involved in group work when we develop eTwinning projects. I try to form balanced groups in their diversity. Each students has a task and feels responsible for that. They all learn to cooperate through discussion and develop respect for others' points of view. For assessment and self-assessment we also use peer review.

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My students sometimes work in small group to solve a problem (a math problem). A very interesting activity is to find out other similar problems:  other problems that can be solved with a strategy that is similar to the one used.

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I try to implement as much as I could team work into my classes whenever it is possible. Tomorrow we are making poster and e-posters for saving water, electricity into groups, so maybe it will be nice to assign them roles. Let's see if they become more efficient.

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Usually, mainly because there is a lack of materials in laboratories, students work in teams where they need to cooperate for the success of the exercise. I often change the team members so that everyone can learn to collaborate even when the characters do not match. It is good  for students to learn how teamwork brings more relaxed and faster successful results.

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In my classes I often promote group work, or sometimes peer work. With this type of activity I am promoting very different competencies, not only the cognitive competences but also the social competences. Students need to cooperate and collaborate and make shared decisions together in order to build a final product.

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My students often work in Groups which change from activity to activity. It could be a reading comprehension or a discussion or a production. example: write your own fable following the rules learnt. The writer on the PC: one student writes and takes notes, the designer: one search/draw some pictures of the fable; the story teller: 1/2 students present it to the class.

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I use group work to allow students to work together. I always use it in my science lessons. I give the students different roles such as the; leader, reporter, speaker, designer and others. Students are given an investigation task and together they must predict the outcome, solve the investigation and create an experiment to test their hypothesis. They must agree on who will bring the necessary resources. Finally they present their work to others and other groups give them feedback. Then together from the received feedback they evaluate what they could improve. The picture below shows my students during the group work task and their presentations.

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I use always the Cooperative learning strategy , Jigsaw modality.
In this way the teacher is a coach, a facilitator that observes, listen, and guide to analyse the contents, but she doesn't take place of the students.
Each student has an important role in success of the task  and all groups help who is in difficulty because all the students in the groups must exchange information and must learn together

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Team work is a good way to see as teachers the abilities of our students. Those who are able to work with others and those who always face up with problem situations.

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I often use cooperative learning and peer education in my classes. Cooperative learning helps students to be able to learn new concepts and skills together instead of independently. Teacher help during this processes acting like a facilitator. It encourages and stimulates the learning process and increases self-esteem but on the other hand not all the students take an active role in this kind of classes. I am curious to try a new (at least for me) kind of lesson: the flipped classroom.

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Until now, indeed, I have almost never let the students form group roles, at least in a structured way. From now on , I think I'll avail myself of this opportunity, since it could overcome the differences of students' effort.

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I often use group work in my classes. There are advantages, but also disadvantages. Kids learn to cooperate and they have the possibility to choose the right role for them. There is the danger that some of them will work and others will not.

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When I dial a working group, appoint a responsible group and give each student in the group concrete tasks so that all form a single group

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I often propose works in groups or in pairs, primarily to acquire skills, but I still have trouble to assign roles.

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Yes, in my teaching I often use work in group or in pair, role playing and cooperative learning!

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Are you facilitating group work in your classroom?
I sometimes have used collaborative learning method, but students does not seem to like this kind of activity so much. They complain that there is who works and who doesn't. In fact they're not so used to work in this way. Probably I should follow more their works and prepare more structured materials, at least untill they will feel more confortable with team working.
Obviously the teacher can be a facilitator proposing at the beginning more structured and prepared activities or for example assigning specific roles to pupils. He has also to explain at the beginning the tasks of each role, the rules that one must follow (e.g. what behaviours are good for team working and which are not), the final goals and the assessment criteria.
The teacher should also intervene in case of conflicts that the children are not able to solve. He can mediate and propose solutions or help pupils to understand which is the problem and how to overtake it.
Team working is also a very inclusive didactic method. Because if the teacher chooses well the composition of the groups, pupils can help their weaker mates.
Assessment is important and it is part of the learning process. So a self-assessment grid used by students for evaluating them selves and their mates can be a really good idea.

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Yes, I always try to take up the role of a facilitator in the classroom. But it often happens as it has been described in this chapter, that one or two students take the lead in a group work, while others put minimal effort on it. And when you ask what was their role, they often don't know what to say.
But it has been my mistake not attributing specific roles to each one of them,  or asking them to assign a role for each and letting me know in advance what each one is doing.

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athis video is very helpfull in order to avoid bad working groups. I have recently let my students to decide about the theme of their project work. They told me the theme but nothing about the roles. I told them that every body must have his/her part in the project. Finally they decided to take an interview. They decided also about the roles: four students one the camera, the second the interview, the third preparing the subtitles in french and the last one the montage. I was very satisfied!!!!!

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I often facilitate group work in my classroom. Recently my pupils finished a short project about Greek Revolution in 1821 during which they worked in groups and each member of the group contributed in a different way. When presenting the results and giving the needed feedback one group realised that they didn't have the chance to achieve their goals as they didn't manage to leave their ego aside as mentioned in the video.

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Students always work in teams and we act as facilitator. We are tutors and help students during the process, letting them have ownership of their decisions and action.

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Yes, in my teaching I often use work in group or in pair, role playing and cooperative learning!

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At the moment a class of mine, 20 students aged 14-15, is finishing a group work about bullying and cyberbullying. I dediced the number of students for each group , the theme, and gave them a deadline. I acted as a facilitator, and I asked them how did they work in team. Next monday they'll present their final works, and will think on team work.
I'll surely take into consideration your advices.

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I often practice teamwork in my class. Especially to do exercises and take advantages of peer education. Sometimes I organized cooperative learning activities with business activities in more structured groups, assigning each student well-defined roles

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I often practice teamwork. I usually introduce a series of problems letting my student choose the one they feel more important for them. I assign roles. I help students to identify the most suitable final product and I ask them to find solutions by themselves. If they find difficulty I drive them to find a variety of solution inviting them to choose the best for them. Every students has a role according his competence but also his interest. This kind of collaboration sometimes works well, some others less. Any case students feel responsible for the team and they do their best even when they do wrong or they don't succeed. This case they will try later again untill they find the right solution and they are very happy as they have done by themselves.

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As a teacher I alway try to be a facilitator. I strongly belive that it is important let students to work in group. Cooperative learning helps students to be collaboratived, to be teamworker and they have a chance to devolop their social skills. During the activity I used to share the class in small group and, most of the time, I give them a groups roles (students are six year old. I think is important to help them to learn how became responsible for the group results) because in this way I am sure that Everyone has contributed during their work.

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work with group, give different groups, be a part of team , be objective

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We usually make physics lab practices in order to build basic concepts. I usually give some pupils directive about how to manage electronic devices for the lab practice. Usually I try they work collaboratively and I have seen they learn better.

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We often use PBL in our eTwinning projects. As a teacher I become a facilitator and the students get more and more active keeping different roles, according with their specific intelligences and skills.
At the end of our Girls Code it Better project  the girls organized themselves and presented the entire path to the parents, who were surprised to see their doughters being so active and the good level of their media skills

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As I am keen on PBL and eTwinning projects I facilitate group work. Collaboration is very important part of learning process.

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Collaborative learning is part of almost every class. In language classes I use peers dictations, reading comprehension tasks, asking-and-giving-opinions tasks, making up dialogues etc. I often use lottery or a game to choose the groups or pairs. If students can choose themselves they tend to work with the same students. Lottery or a game makes them more tolerant and accept all classmates. Organising the groups with the guidance of teacher avoids the situation where somebody is left alone .

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I believe in cooperative learning, but as my students are very young (11/14  y. o.), it's necessary to give each of them a precise role. So that they can feel part of the team and can feel the responsibility of the achievement.

The interaction can help them to know and to help each other and everyone can make the difference.
Next week I will guide them to create few Padlets where they will load their writings and maps created after a cooperative learning lesson. I hope that that would motivate them. What can be difficult is how to form the groups. I usually use the jigsaw, sometimes I let them free to choose their team-mates. It depends on the kind of work and on the class.

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I always adopt in my classroom different methodologies as teaching laboratory, problem solving, cooperative learning, that include a teamwork. I prefer making homogeneous groups, and suggesting the roles but I will let them decide how to assign them within the group. So, I can point attention to the groups dynamics. The results are often different from those expected but very interesting. If they assign the roles without problems it works.

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I use collaborative learning groups in my reading comprehension lessons.  The children work in a group of four and everyone is given a role which is rotated from week to week. The roles are
1. Reader - they read the text aloud to the group
2. Word Checker - they check the meaning of any words the children don't know in the dictionary
3. Time Controller - they make sure the children will finish the tasks in the time limits I give them
4. Facilitator - they move the group through the different stages of the tasks and ensure that everyone is on task
The children enjoy working in this way and it teaches them how to work together while giving each other support with their reading skills.

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When my pupils are working in team I see they are enjoying because they feel more confident. In fact if someone has less skills and competences, can reach the goals with the cooperative learning and so often another students can achieve a new value about theirs skills and what they can able to work with other people.

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When working on eTwinning projects I find it easy to make students work collaboratively because they have a common goal. They get used to learning from each other and try their best.

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Small group activities are a great way to engage students in the classroom. Often, the activities I use are designed to capture background knowledge or recall what students have reviewed before a class. First, I try to pick the best activities for what I want students to do. Then I reckon how much time is available, and how many students should be in each group, assigning them different roles. Exercises related to learning outcome can help students in multiple ways.

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I teach German in a secondary school and I often let my students work in Group. I give them clear instruction about roles and duties, goals and assessment. However, I let them organize on their own who does what and how to achieve the goals. I often see them laughing by working in team, that means they are enjoying it!

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Since we are trying to implement activities which foster the development of the 4 Cs, group work is often adopted as a strategy in class. I choose heterogeneous groups and collaboration and creativity are the perfect ingredients when it comes to group work. Critical thinking allows students to negotiate and communicate.

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I always try to support the decisions of the children, do the help requested, leave that the members of the group choose to come to proceed, the children know the objective of
reach, praise and critical work and not the people, I insert in the group and become part

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I use group work in my classroom. We often write  articles, reports, paragraphs or just sentences expressing opinion on different topics. I divide them into groups of four and ask them to read their writings to the members of the group. Then they discuss their works, choose the best and reads it aloud.   They are also divided into groups to discuss the problem, each in the group coul be given a role,  and then they give their solution or opinion on something. If the text which we work with is very long, I divide it into pieces and ask groups to read the piece and introduce the main points of it to other students. Students also like doing leaflets, presentations and etc. in groups.

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For many years I believed that team work means separating children into groups. However, most of the times those teams weren't successful. Nowdays, I usually separate pupils (I am a teacher in first grade classes in a Primary school) into groups that can work together. I usually try to maintain stability and to give them the oportunity to work together.

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Group work means sharing, exchanging, communicating with others and essential when learning a foreign language. As mentioned above, it is important to give roles to each member of the team to make them feel responsible and engaged. One can be the secretary, another one collect information, another turn this information into own words using specific language structures and another one present final product. Group work is peer teaching and assessment too. Evaluating each other 's work in a positive and constructive way in order to help each other to improve and do better. Project based learning is brilliant and motivate each team player. I do it as drama work, end of module presentations, videos...

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I often assign group activities to my students trying to put together different personalities giving them specific roles but also the occasion to compare their ideas. Also I usually ask to one of the students to help someone in difficulty adopting the peer to peer and the cooperative learning. At the end, the ''weakest'' and the ''strongest'' have learnt something from each other. (Dragon Fire Project)

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In the classes I promote group work among the students. Understanding "group work", where all the students share their ideas, accept the opinion of the other, develop their critical sense, cooperate (defined tasks), collaborate and all take responsibility for the development and final product of the work.

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Our role as teachers, beside developing professional competences, is to foster social competences too. So team work is allways present in my work.

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In my class I use BPL, so this learning method is the best way, in my opinion, to learn and to work in groups. Thanks to etwinning. It is important to use jigsaw technique. Everyone is unique and have to understand the importance of his role to complete the activity.

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learning in teams is an advantage just because it is a little competiton in the group . Each comes with ideas...there the things are analysisng ...there is a leader, there is action ..there is work and the results. Every acton is more efficient with many...more than it is just one !.

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I think that the following strategies are especially effective in teams:

1. Round Robin Present a category (such as "Names of Mammals") for discussion. Have students take turns going around the group and naming items that fit the category.

2. Roundtable Present a category (such as words that begin with "b"). Have students take turns writing one word at a time.

3. Writearound For creative writing or summarization, give a sentence starter (for example: If you give an elephant a cookie, he's going to ask for...). Ask all students in each team to finish that sentence. Then, they pass their paper to the right, read the one they received, and add a sentence to that one. After a few rounds, four great stories or summaries emerge. Give children time to add a conclusion and/or edit their favorite one to share with the class.

4. Numbered Heads Together Ask students to number off in their teams from one to four. Announce a question and a time limit. Students put their heads together to come up with an answer. Call a number and ask all students with that number to stand and answer the question. Recognize correct responses and elaborate through rich discussions.

5. Team Jigsaw Assign each student in a team one fourth of a page to read from any text (for example, a social studies text), or one fourth of a topic to investigate or memorize. Each student completes his or her assignment and then teaches the others or helps to put together a team product by contributing a piece of the puzzle.

6. Tea Party Students form two concentric circles or two lines facing each other. You ask a question (on any content) and students discuss the answer with the student facing them. After one minute, the outside circle or one line moves to the right so that students have new partners. Then pose a second question for them to discuss. Continue with five or more questions. For a little variation, students can write questions on cards to review for a test through this "Tea Party" method.

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I  often used team work with my students to build research and documentation files

Students are divided into groups and they choose the tasks and topics.

Then the students make the results of their work on a padlet and present it to the class.

at the end the teacher evaluates the work.

I see so students are having fun and are more motivated

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I have started to introduce groupwork in one of my first-year classes (14-year-old students). It's very hard at the beginning because students have to be taught to work together effectively. Sometimes it's exhausting. I hope what I am doing now will produce better results in the future.

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I always work with others because i am educational manager.

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students enjoy the teamworks. But the biggest problem of teamworks is some of them work less than the others or don't want to work. In this case there is so  much pressure on the teacher. So I make them play entrepreneurship games to motivate them.

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I have been working with my students in groups since September and only now I see them working, truly as a group

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Cooperative learning is a succesfull teaching strategy in which small,each with students of varying abilities, use different learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject.

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I used cooperative work for a full week this year and it was ok where students are 19 years old, less where they are 16th.

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Working with others is what life is all about. It is not easy, but we are constantly exposed to such situations where we are required to cooperate with team members.
Sometimes I facilitate group work in my classes, I probably should do it more. Firstly, I somehow feel that when students are given group work, they perceive it as 'having a chat in a cafe'. Secondly, there is this fear that not all members will invest the same amount of energy and time in the task. Thirdly, I am not quite sure which roles to assign to team members.
However, this webinar made me realize what my role as a teacher should be when it comes to group work. A teacher should be a facilitator, not a controller; a teacher should make students understand that team work and all that it encompasses is crucial not just at school but throughout one's whole life; teachers should teach all the competences that are involved in group work.
This webinar is of great help.

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Cooperative learning is one of the ways to grow, to follow what the teacher says and shows. The exercitations are the model of the cooperative learning and, so, teaching.

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I totally agree with all what has been said and shown in the videos. As convinced eTwinner I  try to practice many of the methods and activities suggested during this course. If we want our student to develop self-organization and coordination skills, the ability to cope with new situations and solve problems that are not easy to foresee , we need as teacher to take a step back and act as counselor and facilitators. During our project students act autonomously  with the help of us teacher when and if required. We help managing for ex. the chats or the timing of the different activities to a better general fitting and general coordination of the activities of the groups . By deciding in the groups themes goals work mode timing , tools to be used and outcomes to be aspected, student are given the opportunity to learn to become "equally accountable to each other and to discuss in the group  about how and what  they are  individually doing as a team, to gain   common objects which really consist in  value creation. They have also to reflect  on how to give evidence and to present publicly the tangible results of their  creative process

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The last time I used team work in my classroom was when developing a project about Trapani,  a Sicilian city on the western coast. The students were divided into groups. Each group was formed by students with different skills and abilities and for each there was an appropriate role. For example, one student looked for information on the internet, another one was responsible for the pictures and the drawings, another one had to assemble the results of the research using a multimedia support. The team work proceeded very well also thanks to an accurate division of the students into groups.

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Cooperative learning is one of the keys of  students' class activity. They work together and in turn play different roles: the organizer of the activity, the leader, the facilitator, the performer, the evaluator. In small groups they decide about times and final goals. It may refer to homework as well as to school projects about a particular topic.