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Cooperative learning presentations: Comments from Shab Hey

Musical chairs

The group musical chairs had a nice presentation about cooperative learning. At the beginning they explained how they worked together. They communicated a lot per the internet and whatsapp, also they met each other two times. The group explained what is important during a cooperative learning unit: The teacher should know his/her students, be a guide for the students and different students (different hobbies or from different cities) should work together. They also present us different techniques like peer tutoring. This means when one half of the class is the tutor for one day and the other half is the tutor in the next week. This method is modern because here not only the clever kids explain the weaker students something also the weaker students get the chance to explain and help others. Mostly I liked their poster. In my view it was a great guide for people who wants to know what cooperative learning is about. Also they had a really nice activity. It was very creative and the group members were very well prepared. For the next presentation I suggest to try to speak louder. Sometimes I could not hear what they just said.

Amigos del football

This group started their presentation with a well structured index. After that they mentioned rules for a group work which have to be full field from each group member. For example to be respectful or to be responsible. They explained different cooperative learning advantages: improve student’s interest and their communication, meet new friends, develop new skills etc. As well they talk about “disadvantages”. We discussed this term in class and agreed that is not right to call it this way. It’s makes more sense to call it difficulties, because conflicts of different opinions, different learning methods or work styles are not disadvantages of cooperative learning. Then they explained what base team, spontaneous and expert team are. At the end of their presentation they had a very nice conclusion. I like that the most because it’s a nice way to summarize the main points. The used activity was called “Diana”. Each group got a paper with a dartboard. After that the group asked a view question like what is your favorite color and everybody had to write the answer down. This activity is good to play in the beginning of the semester, school or of a groupwork, because you get know your partner. 

Team Perk

What I really liked about this group was that they explained everything pretty good and in their own words. It was easy to follow them during their presentation. As well the visualization helped a lot to understand the topic better. What I really liked was the activity, because you had to stand up and pass the ball, so you get active and it was fun. 

Cronicas viajeras

This group did also a very good job. It was great that they explained everything with lots of examples, so you could understand it easier. Also they talked about different characteristics that each individual has in a groupwork. Their activity I really liked. It was about your individual experience. You should choose a souvenir which you connect with a trip that you have done. After that you should explain it to your group and in the end students should be able to explain the object from another student. This is a good way to get to know your partner better and also it’s a good method to improve your listening skills. 

Unknowns:

This group had a really nice power point presentation. The design was well done and it looked really interesting. So there was from the beginning a big motivation to listen. As the other groups they also explained basic teams, sporadic and expert’s teams. New was in this presentation the team plan. They explained that first the group has to establish long and short team goals. The second point is very important, it’s about regular reflections. This means that the team has to analysis different team - situation and give each other feedback. This is necessary because everything what you have learned during a project with your group you will need for the next project. The activity they have chosen is called “game ball”. In my view the visual explanation of the game was very good. All in all I think it was a successful presentation. My little advice for the next time is try to explain things in your own words. 

Dumbledore teachers Army

The design of the power point was great. It looked like a newspaper and had a directly reference to harry potter and so to their group name. But I also think that the power point was to full. It had many pictures and videos. It was sometimes hard to concentrate on the speaker. New was here the topic “promoting learning structures”. One example was problem set. It’s about different problems that can appear with homework like some kids can’t do their homework’s alone. Because of that the teacher can build teams, where the kids do their homework together. For the next presentation I advise to practice your speech loud in your room, maybe it will help you not to be nervous so much. 

Wanderlust

This group supported their presentation with short videos. That was really impressive, because you could see how much work they put at these presentation. Even if we all have heard most of the things they told us about cooperative learning it was really nice and interesting to listen to their presentation because of the great videos. The message of their presentation was that learning have to be fun and I think with the presentation they showed us that learning can be fun.