4.4 Working with others by EUN Partnership aisbl

Eleonora Italy

2017-03-20 14:31:06 UTC

I usually
set cooperative learning activities, where the responsibilities are shared by the members of the groups. Each student has a role; I supervise activities, giving some suggestions about possible improvements...

Paola - Italy

2017-03-20 14:38:52 UTC

It is always important to make the students feel they are active "parts of a bigger group". Interaction is always a good way to help them understand the importance of sharing reponsabilities, duties, performance and results.

Raffy, Italy

raffaella_papini — 2017-03-20 14:39:20 UTC

cooperative learning activities

Betty-Greece

2017-03-20 14:45:20 UTC

Students can organise a bazaar .They can decide about the product and the sources, the communication method, the prices, the scope of the bazaar. Each student of the class is member of the team with a specific role. Teacher can be there a helper and advisor.

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

2017-03-20 15:04:59 UTC

Cooperative work

Sónia Fonseca, Portugal

2017-03-20 15:06:42 UTC

Usually my students work in group or pairs and this interaction teaches them the importance of sharing in all aspects of life. Yet they are still very young and are still learning that sometimes the result isn't exactly what they expected and that all students involved are somewhat responsible for the outcome.

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2017-03-20 15:50:38 UTC

We usually work in groups because teamwork promotes cooperation, collaboration, acceptance, critical and creative thinking.

Andrea M. - Italy

2017-03-20 16:10:42 UTC

I usually encourage students to work in groups of three or four to promote cooperation, responsibility and open-mindedness. Their activity is organized in projects: each groups works on a different project and, at the end of the activity, they have to pressent their results to the classroom.
I believe that cooperative learning is more useful than individual learning.

Concetta Veca, Italy

2017-03-20 16:46:03 UTC

I usually involve my students in group or pair works since team worm means:

Cooperation
Listen to other peoples ideas
Share own ideas
Manage conflicts together
Show leadership
Accept your role
React appropiatly
Respect your peers
Delegate and accept delegation

Stefano, Italy

prof_stefano_durso — 2017-03-20 17:12:08 UTC

I always ask my students to work in team and a part of the evaluation process is "how" students work in teams... anyway the problem i found is that if you are the only one that organise team work, than you have not success because students are not used to do that and they simply look for the opportunity to find someone that do thw work for him... that's quite frustrating

Maria, Italy. I usually practice peer to peer or group activities

mepifani1958 — 2017-03-20 17:50:38 UTC

Camilla- Italy

camilla_ciaccia — 2017-03-20 17:55:29 UTC

I always ask them to work in team, to cooperate, to share. Everyone has to give his/her own contribution. Those who try to put minimal effort have to cooperate too
with more simple tasks

Bojana, Macedonia

boenov — 2017-03-20 18:20:12 UTC

I always encourage collaboration among students. I use different strategies :
Speak up!
Dive into a Fishbowl!
(Fishbowl is a teaching strategy that lets students practice being both speaker and listener in a discussion)
Give everyone a moment in the spotlight!
Play games!
(Collaboration doesn’t necessarily come naturally to students. It is something that requires direct instruction and frequent practice. One of the best ways to train your students to work collaboratively is through game playing)
Try brainwriting!
Save the last word!
(Tap into your students’ visual skills with a fun strategy called Save the Last Word for Me.)
Make homework a team sport!
(Our kids are always on their devices anyway, so why not harness the growing phenomenon of social networking to actually help them learn, study and do homework, as opposed to getting in the way of it?)
Zoom in on the details!
(Zoom is a storytelling game that is a classic classroom cooperative activity. It gets kids’ creative juices flowing and allows them to not only tap into their own imaginations but create an original story together)

Mara, Italy

mara_mosca77 — 2017-03-20 19:55:00 UTC

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.

Adriana Lefter, Romania

lefteradriana — 2017-03-20 20:48:46 UTC

I encourage my students to work in grups in many activities havind differen roles. Last time they wotk together is last weeks when they preapare lapbooks about their preferate writer Roald Dahl. They work in grops with 4 students : One of them create the design of the lapbooik, second about the most important texts created by Roald Dahl, third about the most important personages, fourth students about presenting the labbook at the and of the activity.

Violeta Korkucyte, the UK

violeta7519 — 2017-03-20 21:00:46 UTC

Even though my pupils are very young I am trying to involve them in working together whenever possible. During the story time I encourage them to discuss and answer questions in groups, so that they can learn from more able peers. Another good example of facilitating group work is through Forest School activities. On a weekly basis my teaching assistant and myself take pupils to the outdoor environment and encourage them to work cooperatively when exploring the natural resources and making their own creations. Normally I group the less able pupils with more able peers during Forest School activities. I act myself as a facilitator rather than a teacher. When working together pupils support and learn from each other.

Tertesa Rita - Italy

2017-03-20 21:28:52 UTC

I usually make my students aware of my goals. I give the topic to discuss and make them work in a group. I give them materials and activities to do . I ask them to take a role in each activity . I usually select materials that match students interests and I use activities that are congruent with student goals.

Çelebi, TURKEY

muallim3858 — 2017-03-20 21:38:23 UTC

I have a lot of group work in my class. Because, in these studies, Leadership, communication, cooperation, negotiation and adaptability.

Emel, TURKEY

mlaydn — 2017-03-20 21:57:05 UTC

Team work is very important in our class.

Isabella, Italy

2017-03-20 22:22:54 UTC

I often use groups not only in my classes but also in the ones in which I replace an absent colleague. I ask the students to study or do other activities for the next lessons in group so they can share their knowledge and create a sociable climate in the class.

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

soleemare_a — 2017-03-20 22:38:06 UTC

Group work is a great opportunity to develop collaboration among students. An example of group work is a game I sometimes introduce in my classrooms: the hangman. Students are divided into two groups and have to respect some rules to guess the words. I choose a spokesperson and each member of the groups has the chance to suggest a letter. A member of each group has to take note of the mistaken letters and another one to keep the score. So collaboration and sense of responsibility are fostered at the same time.

Raffaele, Italy

2017-03-20 22:38:21 UTC

Often my students play in the orchestra. And teamwork is key. If one musician makes a mistake the whole orchestra is penalized and often seriously. Resposabilità and attention are the basis of teamwork. Details and prepare the winning!

Vanessa, Italy

vanessa_ridolfi — 2017-03-21 04:09:42 UTC

I often use cooperative activities where students work together to a task and are group assessed.

Melanie Cini, Malta

2017-03-21 07:35:33 UTC

The subject I teach revolves around teamwork and experiential learning. There are no experts, we learn from each other...different people, different skills, big results :)

Gabriella F. Italy

gabriella_fileccia — 2017-03-21 08:06:28 UTC

Cooperative learning is what I want to improve with my students. I realised that in my school it is not widely used so that children can't manage it yet.

Evangelia, Moula

moulaevang — 2017-03-21 08:47:51 UTC

When using ICT in education since in Greek educational system we lack of facilities, students always work in groups. Then I assign them specific roles, which alternate, so that everybody is involved.

Orestina, Onofri

orestinaonofri — 2017-03-21 09:44:35 UTC

I always let my students work in team. I usually divide my students in groups of 4, sometimes 5 people and assign each of them a role , like:
1) reader
2) note taker
3) discussion leader
4) presenter
5) time keeper
them I provide them with a clear assignment and framework (example: summarise this in 30 minutes then report to the class in 3 minutes).
Finally I monitor the group work all the time to help them to understand what they are doing and get to the final assignment.

Daniela Spinella, Reggio Calabria

daniela_spinella — 2017-03-21 11:23:46 UTC

I always use the cooperatie learning for exsecutive exsercise , they work in group also for a project, they have a roles

Konstantinos, Greece

kkarampelas — 2017-03-21 13:32:44 UTC

I think it is always important to point out the strengths and weaknesess of individuals and teams. It is also important to observe how these progress over time.

Valerica-Romania

dvaly2010 — 2017-03-21 13:57:28 UTC

I always try to give my students the opportunity to work in groups. That is why I teach them what they have to do in order to collaborate, to share ideas and let everyone to participate . If they know their roles it works well.

Cosimo, Italy

2017-03-21 14:48:56 UTC

my students every week and take turns in 4 group carry out practical exercises at the front office of the institute and each of them is assigned a role by the head receptionist and at the end of each exercise each of them fill out a questionnaire of self-evaluation as well that for himself also for the whole working group

Zulmira, Portugal

zulmira_lima — 2017-03-21 15:04:43 UTC

Sometimes, my students are required for team work. Normally, each student has a role to play. I supervise the activities within the group, give some suggestions and encourage them to cooperate and share

Mario Graziano

2017-03-21 15:48:52 UTC

Project Due Dates:

Photographs due:

Scripts completed:

Progress check: – script should be typed, slides organized, narration in progress

Final Photo Story due:

Riccardo Mini, Italy

rccrmn — 2017-03-21 16:26:46 UTC

I've done plenty of group work in my classroom, both as an English and a Drama teacher. Theatre in particular is a very effective tool in promoting the value of shared accountability, negotiation, role division within a group, coping with uncertainties and ambiguity, and focus on the creation of a final product despite the limitations imposed by time, lack of resources, and unexpected problems.

Juanlusz, Spain

2017-03-21 17:07:58 UTC

I rarely facilitate group work while students are planning activities. Group work is done after individual plannification, in interactions and assessment.

Teresio Italy

2017-03-21 17:16:42 UTC

In a music group every person has a different role. One plays the lead another the accompaniment. All the parts must merge into a final result which can fullfill the expectations

Teresa Meli

meliter1 — 2017-03-21 17:23:56 UTC

I work often with cooperative learning and in this case I have problems of formation work groups and the allocation of roles and responsibilities.

Rosa/ Italy

2017-03-21 17:43:16 UTC

Maria Tindara Celona, Italy

2017-03-21 17:45:41 UTC

In class we are preparing some business projects. Before constructing the teams, I identified the skills that must have each team. I have prepared some questions to find the talents of each student: the entrepreneurial spirit, the one who knows the computer, the conciliator, what care public relations. At each skills I attributed a color and then I behave teams

David - Spain

david_galiana — 2017-03-21 19:04:54 UTC

My students are not used to cooperative learning and working in group. Part of the group works and the rest do very little. I must insist on these kind of tasks

Enrica Maragliano - Italy

EMGe — 2017-03-21 20:16:17 UTC

I use cooperative learning preferably in pairs when students have to exercise or correct a written test to understand their mistakes. Usually this approach works quite well, while I seldom use wider groups as this needs more preparation (also in the classroom setting): in this case I give to every member a specific task, so they must be responsible for something,

Erika-Italy

nickregata — 2017-03-21 21:17:15 UTC

I often use cooperative learning in activities where students work together, in groups. In my classroom desks are arrenged like a islands, so students can work together easily and create a social climate in the classroom Every group is called like one of the Galapagos Islands.

Edda,Italy

edda_caracino — 2017-03-21 21:20:35 UTC

mod.4.4
In my first grade class children love making Mandala: when we do geometry those who don't know how to do "Want" to understand how they should do. Even if I help them in the begining, when somebody more "smart" finds out the right way they start a game for who they can help to learn . It's very nice and all the children are really involved,you can hear that no one talks because seriosly intent to work

Beate, Germany

2017-03-21 21:31:30 UTC

Usually when opting for long-term group work I let my pupils decide the group constellation and the division of responsibilities within the group. This gives pupils some more autonomy. Then after a while I let them assess within the group if they are working as a proper team. This early feedback from within the group can correct some imbalances. Pupils also need to report regularly on their process of work within the class, so that the others can give some incentives. Individual assessment is done, too, to make every pupil reflect on his reliability and contribution so far.

Francesca-Italy

francesca_neiviller — 2017-03-21 21:35:45 UTC

We have to teach students to work together, where Teachers are facilitators for their Learning, to reduce ego as much as possible, it's the best way to be entrepreneur for your community,not for yourself!!!

Janine, Australia

jsmith24 — 2017-03-21 21:42:36 UTC

Most of my classes are developed as Big Ideas or Projects. They are either put in teams or in teams on shared interests. Roles are always given but they are taught how to collaborate - not instinctive. Taught about different types of roles and what is involved and reflection is a large part of this.

Dragon fly

cpapaccio — 2017-03-22 06:33:43 UTC

I got new ideas from this projects. It is nothing new, but what makes a difference is the organization of the team work itself.This assigns specific roles to each and every student making it possible to avoid the usual : somebody does everything and somebody plays game on the smartphone!
I would like to organize a project working on selling a culinary product or new processed food to the foreign market. I teach in a culinary school.
concetta Italy

Veronica, Italy

2017-03-22 06:57:50 UTC

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.

Francesca, Italy

2017-03-22 08:10:31 UTC

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.

emma giurlani Italy

2017-03-22 11:03:49 UTC

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

Alessandro Michele, Italia

2017-03-22 11:27:34 UTC

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.

Gordana B.

gocabud — 2017-03-22 12:57:54 UTC

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.

Alessandro Marinelli, Italy

maralex100 — 2017-03-22 16:49:17 UTC

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.

marican — 2017-03-22 16:57:47 UTC

MariaAntoniettaItaly

marican — 2017-03-22 17:07:32 UTC

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.

Alexandra Figueiredo, Portugal

2017-03-22 17:53:34 UTC

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

Sertan BALLI,Turkey

2017-03-22 18:30:52 UTC

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.

Adina Marcu,Romania

2017-03-22 18:48:04 UTC

I always work with others because i am educational manager.

Maria Rita, Italy

mariarita_pepe — 2017-03-22 19:06:10 UTC

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.

Vita, Italy

monaco_vita — 2017-03-22 20:32:17 UTC

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

Paola, Italy

paola_romoli — 2017-03-22 20:41:09 UTC

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

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

Alina Popa -Romania

popalina21 — 2017-03-22 21:50:57 UTC

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 !.

Clara Elizabeth Báez - RC - Italy

2017-03-22 22:57:07 UTC

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.

Marija, Serbia

2017-03-23 07:20:43 UTC

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

Ana Pinheiro (Portugal)

aipinheiro — 2017-03-23 10:04:30 UTC

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.

Fausto Finocchiaro, Catania

2017-03-23 10:11:45 UTC

Sonia S. Italy

soniascribano53 — 2017-03-23 13:10:02 UTC

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...

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2017-03-23 14:00:05 UTC

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.

Reda

2017-03-23 14:46:50 UTC

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.

Elviana, Italy

2017-03-23 14:49:41 UTC

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

Maria Luís, Portugal

2017-03-23 16:00:19 UTC

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.

Cristina,Italy

2017-03-23 16:10:39 UTC

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!

Michela, Italy

2017-03-23 16:40:44 UTC

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.

Mariangela, Italy

mariangela_biel — 2017-03-23 16:49:39 UTC

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.

Cinzia,Italy

2017-03-23 17:40:18 UTC

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.

Nicole, Italy

2017-03-23 18:38:55 UTC

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.

Tiziana. Italy

tizianadieli72 — 2017-03-23 19:05:38 UTC

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.

barbaradipa — 2017-03-23 22:07:49 UTC

Barbara, Italy
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.

Kaire Hakk, Estonia

2017-03-24 08:32:03 UTC

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 .

Kristina Kaučić, Croatia

2017-03-24 09:14:55 UTC

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

Carla Asquini, Italy

2017-03-24 12:17:58 UTC

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

Wilson Canelo/Colombia

2017-03-24 13:29:43 UTC

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.

viki dogani, greece

2017-03-24 13:40:38 UTC

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

Elisa, Italy

elisa_spina83 — 2017-03-24 16:07:45 UTC

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.

Antonietta, Italy

2017-03-24 21:28:50 UTC

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.

Sonia (Ancona-Italy)

2017-03-25 09:14:16 UTC

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

Roberta Dessi.

2017-03-25 12:43:06 UTC

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.

Alessandro/ Italy

2017-03-25 17:23:48 UTC

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

Mario, Italy

2017-03-25 17:55:16 UTC

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.

Angeliki Kougiourouki, Greece

akougiou — 2017-03-25 18:02:17 UTC

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.

maria georgiadou

2017-03-25 20:11:10 UTC

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!!!!!

Regina, Brazil

2017-03-25 20:25:15 UTC

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.

Daniele - Italy

danvir — 2017-03-25 21:03:15 UTC

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.

Kristijan C, Serbia

2017-03-25 21:34:09 UTC

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

Stefania, Italy

2017-03-26 07:57:44 UTC

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

Pop Dina, Romania

popdinaclau — 2017-03-26 08:06:24 UTC

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

Bianca B, Romania

bbyancka — 2017-03-26 08:14:19 UTC

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.

Giuliana, Italy

2017-03-26 10:07:12 UTC

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.

Antonella (Italy)

anto_gioitta — 2017-03-26 13:21:55 UTC

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.

Fina, Catalonia

fvendrel — 2017-03-26 14:09:28 UTC

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.

Elena Volpicella (Italy)

elena_volpe64 — 2017-03-26 14:40:43 UTC

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

Chantelle Bartolo Cremona

chantellecremona — 2017-03-26 15:19:36 UTC

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.

Giovanni P., Italy

2017-03-26 16:50:58 UTC

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.

Clara Abegão, PT

acjesus — 2017-03-26 17:05:12 UTC

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.

Elena, Greece

l_1_doug32_ed — 2017-03-26 21:00:48 UTC

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.

Slavica

teacher_slavica — 2017-03-27 13:07:03 UTC

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.

Donata

donata_sartor — 2017-03-27 15:21:21 UTC

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.

Filomena Bianco, Italy

2017-03-27 18:11:28 UTC

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.

Özlem, Turkey

2017-03-27 18:31:03 UTC

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.

Maria, Italy

marinellagrassi3 — 2017-03-27 19:24:45 UTC

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.

Teresa (Italy

teresacasa — 2017-03-27 19:39:21 UTC

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.

Alcira MF, Germany

amulf — 2017-03-27 20:05:22 UTC

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).

Atanasija, Croatia

2017-03-27 20:05:46 UTC

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.

Paola, Italy

sinipas — 2017-03-28 08:35:42 UTC

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.

Sonia, Italy

sonia_bbn32 — 2017-03-28 10:11:27 UTC

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.

Irène - Belgium

irene_indemans1 — 2017-03-28 14:37:22 UTC

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'

Sal, Italy

2017-03-28 17:01:36 UTC

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

Preeti, Sweden

preetivij — 2017-03-28 19:40:20 UTC

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

Montserrat Padrón, Spain

2017-03-28 21:18:21 UTC

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

Maiia, Ukraine

s_maya — 2017-03-28 22:05:55 UTC

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.

andrea , italia

andrea_avantaggiato1 — 2017-03-29 08:34:21 UTC

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

Juan Diego _ Spain

2017-03-29 10:34:55 UTC

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

Angela Gordino, Portugal

2017-03-29 10:50:11 UTC

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).

Giuliana, Italy

giuliana_lalli — 2017-03-29 15:59:00 UTC

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!

Francesco, Italy

babelemultilab — 2017-03-29 17:00:30 UTC

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.

Maria Daniela, Italy

mariadaniela_renna — 2017-03-29 20:23:35 UTC

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.

Reneta Raicheva, Bulgaria

2017-03-29 21:31:15 UTC

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

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

2017-03-30 06:17:57 UTC

Aleksandar, Serbia

2017-03-30 15:20:05 UTC

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

Antonina, Italy

antonina_pippo — 2017-03-30 21:27:55 UTC

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.

paola

2017-03-30 22:08:19 UTC

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

Cristina S., Portugal

2017-03-31 10:01:52 UTC

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..

Emilia/Romania

2017-04-01 18:58:15 UTC

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.

Adina, Romania

2017-04-02 06:13:21 UTC

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

Caterina Italy

2017-04-02 09:28:43 UTC

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

Constantinos, Cyprus

ckalapodas — 2017-04-03 09:14:04 UTC

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.

Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

2017-04-03 19:38:57 UTC

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

Maria Amalia Vergoula, Greece

2017-04-03 22:42:07 UTC

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.

Gis México

ggzzaa123 — 2017-04-04 00:39:21 UTC

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

Antigoni Komodiki

komodikiantigoni — 2017-04-04 16:53:31 UTC

Cyprus
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.

BrunoFerreira20

2017-04-05 17:22:56 UTC

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

2017-04-05 17:27:26 UTC

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

2017-04-06 08:40:22 UTC

Virginia, Italy

2017-04-06 18:52:46 UTC

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

Luigna Astorino

20febraio — 2017-04-08 09:01:12 UTC

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.

digisterk — 2020-01-10 00:49:04 UTC

collaborative

Pshcee

2021-10-10 04:59:58 UTC

.working together helps active more
.working together makes work easier
.working together finishis everything very quickly