About Cooperative Learning, Maria´s comments

  About Cooperative Learning

I think that this exhibition has higher value since it is our first exhibition in English and for many, including myself, has been complicated.

Musical chairs.

The first group to expose was musical chairs. The main idea with which I'll stick, and which they themselves exhibited as one of the most important is the idea of respect. Cooperative learning is what requires among other things but is must be important for work.

Cooperative learning is fun and helps to discover the children themselves. They develop certain skills and abilities which, individually, perhaps you would not get. It is a kind of social constructivism, children are learning from his experience as a group and its individual figure as a participant in a group. The part that they were exposed as more complex was the raise the groups, activities...

As an activity we carry out some boxes, decorating them with photos, food, traditions of different countries.

In conclusion, the professor asked to tell a sentence of cooperative learning. I remember that they said something like that cooperative learning is entertaining, motivating and satisfying work and learn.

Amigos del football

For me this group had quite fluently and was a pleasant presentation.

We saw that there are no advantages and drawbacks but advantages and difficulties. They presented a clear divisions that can have class in the cooperative learning and they were adding new information. They set clear examples of things that would be telling.

The most interesting thing for me was one last slide in your presentation where exposed a series of benefits that provide cooperative learning as for example I remember that they said that you reducing the dropout. Technique that most liked this group was that of the puzzle; you focus on a subject and then explain it to your classmates.

Activity carried out was that of dartboard. They changed this target by a soccer ball, I suppose that in relation to its name of group, and in it we had to draw a series of circles. Each circle was a question we had to answer these questions. This game helped us get to know our colleagues from the Group of work, a little more of your tastes or hobbies.

Team Perk

Team Perk group, explained the topics in a simple way, they made a good exposure and everyone knew how to perform very well in the exhibition.

I liked to make photographs in a real class to explain the different forms of organization of the tables for the most optimal cooperative learning. It is always easier to remember something visually.

They spoke of class rules such as cooperative learning group standards. They just introduced them because the activity that we would do with them would be based on that. They explained the tasks that each person responsible for the group, adding new information again.

It was interesting the fact of themselves to create an own planning worksheet for class equipment.

Activity we did was with tennis balls. We had to go through the ball in our respective teams saying a series of standards that we thought we had to have as much in class as students as participants in a working group. Found me the activity fun and stimulating. None wanted to be the last to fall with the ball at the end since it would be that would be the slate to write the resulting ideas. We then discuss whether our ideas taken from the game had to be to class, to the Working Group, for both or none.

Crónicas viajeras

For me this was the most enjoyable presentation. They explained all the main contents, dynamic and easily.

It was interesting how this group associated with and was able to explain the division of students in cooperative learning through topics related to its own subject as a group. Travel, spoke of visits, museums... used examples to explain the theory.

They also spoke of the characteristics that you have as an individual in a working group, available... and the things that on the contrary you should not have in a working group since it only brings negative consequences both to the Group and to the work carried out by the same.

The activity that we perform with this group was entertaining. We all had to take a souvenir from a trip that we had made. Once again on the subject of their group. Once in class we had to explain to our group mates, which object had chosen and why and so meet us more between us. Then each student would explain the object of another companion and memories to give those objects.

Unknowns

Unknows made a clear explanation. Which, for me, this group said best was equipment division.

What I liked most about this exhibition was roulette made with ten ideas or rules that all equipment must meet and have, as for example share material or have a calendar of organization.  The phrase "None of us is as good as all of us together" marked important game we did was all kind in haw. So far we had not done so and it was good since so not only were allowed to meet the members of our group but the rest of our colleagues. We had to go saying things that we liked and we not liked doing, passing the ball to the person we would like to tell us something of him or her, trying to pass it on to someone with less treatment had. Once we remove the round, we group ourselves according to the things that we discovered that we had in common.

Dumbledore teacher’s army

The presentation of this group was incredible. It was all decorated in Harry Potter and I think make this Power Point to the group brought him enough work.

They added new ideas to the former, for example some of the benefits of the cooperative learning as positive interdependence. At this point in the presentation all groups already talked a little bit of the same but each team explained it in a way and this is what made this group. Speaking of things but from a different point of view, even modified the names of some of the cooperative learning techniques, very positive thing from my point of view its activity consisted of form random pairs with students of all kind, they handed us a sheet to each pair with a series of questions of all kinds. We had to ask the questions to our colleague and vice versa, so knowing you better. Then we should be able to explain what our colleague had told us.

Wanderlust

This was the last group to expose. Through some videos and comic form explained how it worked the cooperative learning. While the video is playing on the projector, the team members explained the themes of work.

They also conducted a new organization plan, bringing together aspects of which he had seen with his own ideas. They also used the philosophy of cooperative learning in a different way, through the use of proverbs. The technique that best knew how to explain for me was Jigsaw, clear and simple. They spoke of the negative aspects of the cooperative learning in the sense that they saw that despite form these groups also had to have changes, improving little by little and to adapt to the environment.

With respect to their game, they changed knowing that the last group were of the same content. We grouped us randomly for a few numbers which we shared. On a sheet we had to write 3 or 4 ideas which we had captured about cooperative learning, then put them in common with the rest of our group and finally, wrote a series of ideas or phrases with the things in common that we had collected on an individual basis.

They established similarity between tree that formed the outline of your presentation with what they understood of the cooperative learning or performance of any classroom.

                                                                                                                           María Encinas Ramos.