https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj Made with Love! en-us 2017-06-02 16:27:36 UTC 2025-11-20 23:49:41 UTC hello@padlet.com cmccaulley2010 https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003179 This element suggests that teachers should group students into pairs, triads, or small groups to set students up in a productive group where they can share ideas and gain multiple points of reference.]]> 2017-06-02 16:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003179 cmccaulley2010 https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003428 *Grouping for active processing
*Job Cards]]> 2017-06-02 16:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003428 cmccaulley2010 https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003537 By placing students in strategic groups, this can actually help students actively process the content. These groups engage students in thinking with their peers and allows them to opportunity to observe different points on view on a given topic. Another noteworthy tool to use during these groups is a technological source of some sort to help facilitate discussion or keep record of it. The tool I'm currently using, Padlet, would be great for students to jot down notes or even for the teacher to provide talking points for each group.]]> 2017-06-02 16:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003537 cmccaulley2010 https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003838 Job cards is simply distributing note cards to each group member with a job written on the card. Each person in the group will have a specific job that they have to be responsible for. This helps to keep students on track and task, as well as helping make sure that each student contributes to the group equally. Some of the jobs you might want to include are, recorder, summarizer, and questioner. Our text also notes that technology can be used by the teacher to distribute jobs to students. It shortens the prep time greatly and it truly does provide an equal distribution of the jobs. In other words, this is the most fair way to pick who gets what job. One really help site that you could use for this is, https://www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/ You could put the jobs on the wheel and have each student spin for their job! If two students get the same job, have the student spin again.]]> 2017-06-02 16:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175003838 cmccaulley2010 https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175004543 Some things to keep in mind when implementing this element and its strategies are to, make sure you've picked your groups strategically. Your groups should have students who are capable of completing the task with little guidance. You could pair your students so that you have a high student, low student and some in between students. This will help things run smoothly. This will also help to provide multiple ways of thinking within one group, and your students get more from the group this way. You can also use homogeneous grouping so that students are in ability based groups. Some research shows that students in groups with students who are at a similar ability level, feel more comfortable. Furthermore, some students even stepped up to the leadership task. It's important to know what task will require which type of groups. Secondly, make sure you allow yourself enough time for planning and actual execution of the activity. These activities can take a chunk of time]]> 2017-06-02 16:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cmccaulley2010/qkuo6pe1mtsj/wish/175004543