Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Strategy I would like to implement: 7th grade health
A teaching strategy that I have read about that I would like to implement is called group investigation (type of coorperative learning). Essentially the class is introduced to a topic or problem to be studied. Students will be formed into groups. Students then develop a plan for investigation of the topic. The group would then research and present their results, insights, questions, etc. this would be a very good strategy because it allows for collaboration between students and enables them to think more critically about topics. In some cases students are able to study of the “gray areas” of the problem or topic which intern can create some very interesting results/ insights/ questions. This would enable me to “see what they got.”
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Students can learn a lot from group activites because it fosters learning from each other and really fosters creativity. This is a good method in my opinion as it enable kids to think outside the box and explore with each other.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great strategy that was used during my A placement in Forensic Science. I would like to add that you will want to have distinct and well defined roles for each student in each group. We quickly found that if we didn't give every student a "job" to do, many students would just sit around, talk, goof-off and let the more conscientious students do most (if not all) of the work. But, when it works - it works very, very well. The students remain engaged since it is something they have control over and they are able to make it their own project.
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