Organizing Student Learning Groups | Origin: ED106
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Enhancing Student Learning --> Organizing Student Learning Groups
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
I learned that effective learning groups require clear structure, defined roles, and tasks that are purposeful and relevant to the course. I plan to apply this by setting clear expectations, assigning meaningful group work, and monitoring groups closely to ensure every student is contributing and supported.
I learned that effective group work must be meaningful, skill-appropriate, and focused on decision-making so it isn’t perceived as busywork. Students need explicit coaching in group skills and progressively challenging assignments with clearly defined roles to ensure fair participation and strong group dynamics.
Dividing students into smaller groups and having clear expectations for the group is an important strategy to facilitate participation.
Effective group organization requires optimizing group size to prevent social loafing while ensuring student diversity for well-rounded perspectives. I intend to apply these principles by keeping groups small to maximize engagement and allowing teams the autonomy to navigate their own problem solving processes.
Group settings can help students to learn from one another as well.
By having the right size group as in the number of students is beneficial to their learning, i usually do groups of 3-4 students, more than that I have found that one or two of them do not engage as much
I learned how the interaction between the students in the small group is very beneficial to complete the assigned task
I liked the points on effective design of groups, and different ways to evaluate individual students within a group. I also appreciate the cautions on re-assigning group members and the destructive effect this can have on one or more of the affected groups.
Im still processing the information in this section, formulating ideas on how to create and monitor groups and group work effectively. This section was very informative and got me thinking.
great information, i will need to implement learning groups much more in future
Learning groups can assist with engaging the students.
Its is important when creating groups that student diversity is considered for more well rounded approach
If you are creating groups, you need to let them be successful or not. You are not making mini-yous. This may be letting them expand on something that you know may lead them wrong. The willingness to do this is hard...but it is part of the learning.
It is important to let students work in groups as i let my students work in pairs of 2. It also helps to pair a weaker student with a stronger student
Nelia Diaz
It is important forming learning groups <no more 6-8 students and we need to consider a balance of student diversity.
learning groups should be from 6-8 students to have an effective outcome
Assigning work groups is tough in my program where our class sizes average about 6 students per class. They usually partner up for some activities but otherwise they are working as a collective.
I use a random assignment for any groups in my class. When we proceed into our profession, you are going to work with all kinds of people, good and bad. So, I take the tact that they need to put on their adulting hat and get involved in the group activity. Next time there is a group, they will have a different grouping of people.
I need to be always aware of the "temperature" of the group and if I need to mix it up to re-engage them
