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In teaching learning process, sometimes we do individual task and group task. Individual task is very common in Indonesia especially. I remember start from elementary until graduate from secondary school I often got individual task. How about group work? Sometimes we use this method right? Do you know to assign students to make a group have an art? There is some strategies to make assign group interesting for students.
1. Turn to your partner
This is the first way to make a group. Student just share/ discuss with her/ his friend beside her/ him.
2. Number off
In here students are numbered off' according to the group size/ number of group required. Then all students with the same number will be in the same group.
3. Lines up/ count off
Students line up in order, using given criteria. For example the house number, the birth day, weight etc.
4. Match up
It is quite similar with the previous strategy (Lines up/ count off). this way is student find other people who share a given criteria. For example; eye or hair color, number family member or color of clothing. And students who have similar criteria will be in the same group.
5. Grouping card
Students need to matching cards. It could be a symbol, color, the similarities of part of speech or something like that.
6.Round the clock
Student are each given a clock face. They organize the partner for each of the 12 hours on the clock.For example, the teacher said 'Mira (who is stand on 3 o'clock) work with your 5 o'clock partner'.
7. Jigsaw pieces
Every students are give a piece of puzzle of picture then they have to find the remaining of picture or puzzle. The picture also can be relate to the topic, that we will discuss.
8. Lucky dip
Teacher bring a box that collected of objects that can be grouped, such as color buttons. Students select them 'lucky dip' style and then students who get the same color will be the same group.
9. String partners
The students hold a pile of lengths of string in their hand (held in center so that both of string can be pick up by students). The number of string should be equal to half the class. if the class consist of 30 students so the number of string should be 15. Students pick the string, if they get the same string means that they are in the same group.
See, there are so many strategies to grouping and make it different and more interesting for students. Some strategies above are not familiar in Indonesia. On the other hand I have consult with my lecturer with this topic and she said that "grouping strategies is not familiar for Indonesia because teachers in Indonesia is very rarely to assign student to make a group, because they think that work in group are noise, wasting time, and just some students will work in their group. But actually it depend on how teacher conduct the lesson it self". Then I totally agree with her.
So, for all of you are teacher or teacher candidate happy arrange group in your class :)
5 comments:
Hmmm... nice and very useful posting! Thanks Oca.
when learning this topic, i just shocked.. the grouping method that usually we called as "arisan" or "kocokan", infact it has nice name, "lucky deep".
Hmm but actually the teacher can start to get students' interest from the strategy of grouping. so the teacher need to master it. I like your posting ocha... :)
oh iyah
u remind me about this arranging method
but although there's many ways to arrange group, in class we still do the same...
counting and lucky dip
hheheu
but it's fun to do
students will be surprised everytime we assign them to group using different ways
it's like a secret key for teacher to keep the class interesting
nice posting ov!
mmeeooww
what do you think, should teacher arrange group or let the students choose their own group???
@ endang & Uni: thank you for your comment :))
@ Isti: i choose both of them. sometimes teacher have to decide group but sometimes we can let students choose their own group. it depend on the assignment and the habitual, i mean if we too often make a group by teacher it would be bored for students.
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