Theme 4: Group Work (Coordinators)

Resource type
Book
Author/contributor
Title
Theme 4: Group Work (Coordinators)
Abstract
This handbook is the HANDBOOK FOR PD COORDINATORS for Theme 4, focusing on group work. In many everyday situations people work alongside colleagues, speak and listen to friends, and see what others do and how they do it. This is how we all learn. As we talk to others, we discover new ideas and information. If activities in the college classrooms are centred on the tutor, then the student teachers do not get enough time to be active: they do not have the opportunity to try, to demonstrate their learning or to ask questions. In such situations, some students may only give short answers and some may say nothing at all. In large classes, the situation is even worse, with only a small proportion of students saying anything at all. One reason for doing group work in the classroom is to give students more opportunities to participate. Working in groups and pairs is about learning collaboratively. Collaborative learning means two or more student teachers working together to achieve a shared goal. This includes peer collaboration (for groups of two student teachers), and small group work (for smaller groups). It requires you to interact and talk about what you are thinking with one another in a specific learning context. Questions can be posed, ideas can be challenged and misunderstandings can be heard and investigated.
Series
T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Handbook for Professional Development Coordinators)
Volume
5
# of Volumes
13
Edition
1
Place
Ghana
Publisher
Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana)
Date
April 2016
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Citation
Haßler, B. (Ed.). (2016). Theme 4: Group Work (Coordinators) (1st ed., Vol. 5). Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana). http://oer.t-tel.org
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