Do you have a tried-and-true technique or short activity you use to divide your students up for group or pairwork? How do you get them to work with students that they don’t already know and who don’t speak their native language?
I’m an ESL teacher and materials developer and am interested in your input for a project that will include a compilation of resources on group work. If your submission is included you will be credited and will receive a copy of the compilation for your own reference. If interested, please email me with a brief description of your technique/activity, along with all of your pertinent info. You’ll be contacted for further details if your submission meets the project’s guidelines. Thanks for your help!
Ideas needed for groupwork resource book
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Ideas needed for groupwork resource book--email address!!
Sorry, you can post the ideas here so we can all see them, or you can email me at [email protected].
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Some fun ones:
Have everyone look at their fingernails. The people who hold their hands out flat facing away from them go in one group and the people who turn their hands over and bend their fingers towards the palms go in another group.
Birthdays from January to June go in one group and July to December in another.
Ask a question that requires an answer of yes or no and have the yes go to one side and no to the other.
There is a whole book on Co-operative Learning that gives you activities for groups and how to divide people. You might be just reinventing the wheel.
For learning groups it is good to know your students and put one good student, two middle and one poor student in a group of four and then they can help each other. There are also jobs for each member of the group if you want them to make sure they participate.
This is a great field of study and has a whole history of development and research.
Have everyone look at their fingernails. The people who hold their hands out flat facing away from them go in one group and the people who turn their hands over and bend their fingers towards the palms go in another group.
Birthdays from January to June go in one group and July to December in another.
Ask a question that requires an answer of yes or no and have the yes go to one side and no to the other.
There is a whole book on Co-operative Learning that gives you activities for groups and how to divide people. You might be just reinventing the wheel.
For learning groups it is good to know your students and put one good student, two middle and one poor student in a group of four and then they can help each other. There are also jobs for each member of the group if you want them to make sure they participate.
This is a great field of study and has a whole history of development and research.