17-02-2015 presentations about cooperative learning

This Tuesday we saw two presentations and we also show our presentation, in these presentations the main ideas were the philosophy in the classroom, the creation of the teams, the rules in the classroom, the jigsaw and the web quest.

In the philosophy idea the most important thing you have to take to account is the inclusion of every student in the classroom and that everyone feels that he belongs there and also cheer them up and motivate them. For creating the teams one thing to take as an important one is the heterogeneous of the teams, specially on base groups, in sporadic groups is not that important because they don’t last much but in base groups is very important and the methods you have to use to create this such as a sociometric test to see how is every student or making columns based on their capacities, one with the most capacities, another one with the needy ones and the last one with the normal kids, in order to make the groups you have to take one kid from the column one, another one from column two and two from column three, and you have your base group. Other thing that we talk about on Tuesday was the rules in the classroom, to sum up them are basically: be safe, be respectful and be responsible.

Then were the jigsaw and the web quest, the main ideas of the jigsaw are that every student is important inside their group because everyone of them has a small part of the topic, then they go to groups where students has the same part as theirs and become a group of experts about that part and then they explain it to their base groups so everyone gets the information. The web quest can be used as a good resource for creating cooperative learning, and in which you give more independency to the children while you use new technologies, in the web quest you put the instructions to follow to accomplish the project and also research pages and of course the evaluation in this y every student knows how it’s going to be evaluated and what does he have to do.

There were good presentations and the ideas were very interesting.