I can use grouping patterns to teach 9-12th art standards in the area of writing by having the students work individually on their writing but then group them in formal groups to revise each other's writing. I have read that homogeneous grouping should be used sparingly and that it is most effective for students who have a medium ability because those who are grouped with low ability perform worse. I will try to keep the groups small about 3-4 students per group where at least one low ability and high ability are in each group. Based on Gardner's intelligences I can use students strong intelligence types to group them in various groups. For example, I can group small peer groups based on musical and spatial or musical and bodily-kinesthetic. I could also group larger groups with linguistic, interpersonal, and logical mathematical. Or I could also group them by intra-personal with existential and naturalist. I feel that some will work better than others based on their interests. Based on their abilities they can all contribute to their learning. For example, the musical student could find a song that relates to the content being learned that has some vocabulary words we are learning or the spatial student can find different ways to present the information using visuals and charts, the linguistic student could present the findings and so on. By having different students with different abilities, all students will benefit because the content is being reinforced in various ways. Each student will be happy learning individually but also adding their share to the group assignment.
Defending Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning allows for differentiation and increasing student performance. When students are grouped to complete a project students have an individual responsibility within the group. Students learn to take leadership of their own role that will benefit the outcome of the whole group. Utilizing everyone's strengths and abilities, everyone has the responsibility to complete their own part in order to accomplish the objectives for the whole group project. Students learn to collaborate and help one another. As a group they are learning 21st century job skills like collaboration, communication, critical thinking, leadership and creation.
0 Comments
|
AuthorLover of anything that has to do with art and education. You can find me teaching art to other students and learning how to become an effective and passionate teacher. Archives
April 2024
Categories |