The last Thursday, two groups showed us their works: “Escuela de Bocacion” and “Futupasta”. Both of them have been interesting, and we have learnt new things with each one, and this is so positive to us, because we have expand our knowledge about cooperative learning.I’m going to talk about the most important and “newest” points of each group, so I’m going to start from the first that did the presentation:

 “ESCUELA DE BOCACIÓN”

Team's notebook: 

This is a very useful resource that helps students to organized them selves in a cooperative learning way.In this notebook the members of a group have to write: First, writhe the hobbies and the different skills of each memeber of the group, and this step helps to create the name of the group (that involucrates everybody), Second all the members have to develop a roll, and this roll is rotative ( in the different activities it changes),each one have to have personal commitmens (be better in something, try to be more attend...) and achieve them by its self and with the help of their partners of the group, Third, the plan of the group, to do an activity they have to follow a several "microtasks", so they have to plan it with time, and then look if they have close fit to their stimated time. And after this they have to value what they have achieve and what can change to do better in the next work.


The teacher's roll:

They have explained it with different points: be concrete, define each skill, go step by step, practice the skills, just be an scafolding for the children (students develop autonomous).So the roll of the teacher is very important to children to get their goals, and to learn more about this way of learning.



Children are autonomous:

Children have to feel comfortable with their roll, and to get this they have to pass some steps like: conscious of their clumsy with this skill, feel falseness when they put this skill in practice, then the proper use of it ( but mechanic), and the goal to be automatic and the proper use of the skill.

The thing that have caught my attention have the funny videos (examples of work in groups), like the one of the penguins and the minions.

"FUTUPASTA"

T.A.I, Teams Game Tournament

This is a personalized play: each pupil is responsible of his own plan and help the others students to get their goals.The most important is to get the correct answer buf not quickly, and that there are a lot of prices (the one of working together, the most creative answer...), and each group get one. So this is a motivate activity to children, and to make them be interesting in the activity.



Plan/ The evaluation

This has caught my attention because it is more visual, and it is qualitative. It motivates the students they always are going to get a star, but they can get more stars so they will effort more to get it. The evaluation is: should improve: 1 star, good: 2 stars, very good: 3 stars.


Methos of meeting: 

They have work in different ways, thay have used skype, prezi, google docs. And with this they can work at the same time in different places and achieve their project's goals.

The most impact thing of this work have been the originality, not doing the project with power point, so they have been the differents.

Silvia García Rodríguez- Grupo 1ºB- Los RolKids

Futupasta

The philosophy that this group has been is to accept each other with their difference; it could be phisic, culture...

The method that they´ve employee is the peer tutoring. This method consist in, a goup of three student, with differents level of learning. This start with one of tge three pupils being the " teacher" so he/she has to teach others and the other two have to learn, to understand... When this finished, the turn of the "teacher" change and do again the same that I´ve told yet. With this type of learning, there not only learn the topic, they learn to be more responsable.

Finally they have explained the tournament. This method base on different group heterogeneous and for each have a card. The teacher asked question and they have to answer correctly. They don´t have time to answer beacuse with this method we pretended to know more, not to get a prize.

If the answer is correct they´ll have more card, but that doesn´t mean anything. All groups will have a prize with differents meaning, for example to answer quickly, to help each other...

School of Bocation

This group has presented the work on three point. This points are : plan of teachers, authonomic and group investigation.

On the one hand we have the plan of teachers that help them to know this new learning. Also there´re teachers that know this  learning, but with this planning the´ll have more information and increase their knowledge.

On the other hand, stand out the authonomic. With this type of learning , pupils have to learn to do their own work, to search information, to help each other, and all this examples are authonomic. The student learn, no only the subject, they learn how to work in a group, how to work without help, to respect each other, to have more attitude to continue study.

Finally, the last point is the group investigation. With this method, they put in heterogeneous group. They search information with their own group, they compare all the information and then they do a work about the topic. They presented to all the classmates but this has not finished yet. The other student do the same with the equal topic, so that help to know if they´re doing well a not, if they have search enough information and also to grow up.

To sum up, I like so much the phrase " be a scaffold" this phrase expressed again this type of learning. The teachers support and help the student and they( teacher) allow the pupils to think and study by their own.

Group “Escuela De Bocación” COOPERATIVE LEARNING

I enjoy a lot with videos that this group show us, because, they explain so well the different concepts that they want to work.

Then, other thing that I can learn is their “team’s notebook”, because they explain step by step what we have to do for use this method. First you have to tell or explain your plan about your project, topic or work. Then, you have to explain what we are doing with the concepts and at the final you have to make an assessment to know how much work of people, their sensations, their involucrate…

Other important thing that I see it’s the multiple intelligences. Anybody has put in their project something like this and I think that it’s interesting to work in the cooperative learning. They explain us that have different tests to know which intelligences have children. It helps kids to learn, remember, perform and understand the different concepts.

This group have use concepts that they learn in the other semester and I think that this is important to be a good teacher because you can connect the different concepts with others topics and explain better.

Group “Rigatonis Angels” COOPERATIVE LEARNING

I like so much some ideas that this group give us. For example, we can work with children the philosophy class through different slogans.  I think that slogans are so easy for children learn because they can memorize short sentences and remember it. They can have in their classes the same blackboard and they can put every week different slogans to improve the cooperative learning. We can use this method to promote equality and reduce competitive situations in the classroom. With this form, children can feel part important of this project.

Other thing that I like a lot has been put the different rules with pictures or drawings to explain rules, because with this way children can associate it with the drawings and learn easily. Distributions of the rules are clear through rotary, demand responsibility from each other and turn into routine.

The video about the technique of “Jig – saw” has been so nice to explain it because you can see with your own eyes the cooperative learning with this method. If you use this video to explain kids the cooperative learning they will learn more practically. 

Group “La Banda Del Patio” COOPERATIVE LEARNING

About the exposition of this group, I think that it was a normal exposition because they have the same concept that the rest. I have to tell one thing that I like of this group and it is their equipment plan. Here, they told us how we have to assement kids like a teacher. 

You can evaluate session each day how you want as individual or in group. I think that in this evaluation is necessary to consider the assessment of teaching practice, where the teacher must be assessed himself as the resources used, such as materials that she uses in class.

The steps that they told us to make the group organization are so clear and interesting because you like a teacher have to now the different objectives that you want to improve. Children have to know these steps to work well in group.

Group “The differents” COOPERATIVE LEARNING

In general I liked the exposition because was well. They called my attention when they told us the difference between the technique of peer – tutoring and when the teacher gives one topic to the class and the first kid that finish start to help to other classmate.

I know that they have had a wrong with the advantages and the disadvantages but I understand why they have put in the project.  In the last trimester we saw the cooperative learning in didactic and we found information about that. In a book that talked about the cooperative learning had this advantages and disadvantages and we saw important this information for that I think that they put it in the project.

Other thing that I liked was when the group has talked about the “notebook team” because I think that it’s important teachers have this in class to put all information and several things about the process of the children working in group, individual, behaviour…

The examples about the explication were so clear and help me to understand some things of the project, like the assement.

Group "Futupasta" COOPERATIVE LEARNING

In this last exposure I want to highlight three important points that have been treated:

1. With Cooperative learning we work "Inclusive Education", accepting the others in their differences; everyone learning to learn work in group.
2. I want to highlight the importance of using the technique of Team Games Tournament as a resource to bring in the classroom cooperative learning. Once you have finished cards and points must be distributed to collect the reward, the teacher will not give points based on the position or the number of cards held by each team, so this way he would be rewarding knowledge . What the teacher want with this technique is that the child can develop skills and learn values that help him in his daily, so what is the share rewards, aid to other classmates, the behavior of each member of the group with the other classmates, respect.
3. Assessment. I can write about different ways to evaluate this method, and for each of them graphically have presented us how to perform different tables with corresponding evaluation items.
• Of the teachers themselves.
• Evaluate other group members and to oneself.
• Assessment by the teacher as  he has carried out the process of cooperative learning.
• To evaluate to students this group has chosen a visual assessment, for example, with stars. The stars have implicit positive message for children, the teacher has just changed the number of stars. The message that he wants to leave is that all class have made a good job making the project, thereby avoiding competitiveness teacher in the classroom.

OUR PROJECT " LOS ROLKINDS"

LOS ROLKIDS

Group "Escuela of Bocation" COOPERATIVE LEARNING

In this exposition I want to write about "Multiple intelligences", with this theory can change the way teachers and students think about learning. A simple test which shows which intelligences students are strong in can really give them a new perspective. It can get them to change their attitude towards their own intelligence and learning and raise their self-esteem. For example, if a student learns that he is strong in Sciences Natural intelligence but doesn't excel in logical-mathematical intelligence he can get a whole new perspective on his abilities and change his views about learning. He could practice his stronger intelligence and develop his weaker intelligences. I believe that is very important for teacher to focus on students strengths and the "Multiple intelligences" theory can help with that.
For that, the cooperative learning can help to develop intelligences multiples between students in the same classroom, and it is going to make that students become more autonomous.
For this to take correctly into the classroom the teacher has to be concrete, define each skill, start step by step, not overload the students and make this method often.

The last Tuesday we saw the cooperative learning presentations of three groups, all of them had the principal ideas of this way of learning, and they show us their project and each member of the groups talked about the content of their work.

A point of a work of my pupils that has caught my attention has been the slogans, this is very interesting because is a way to motive the well-being of the class, in which we can find : “No worries, No guts, Attitude is everything, Don’t worry be happy, impossible is nothing, Never give up, Failure is not an option…” and few more. I think that I will put this slogans in my future class, that will be done by my students each years.

Inclusive philosophy:

All the groups have talked about this directly and indirectly because the cooperative learning is connected with the inclusive learning. I have understood this like a design, where students, people work always together, sharing with the rest of the group, participate together and learn from others. This make that students achieve some abilities that are very important in the daily life of a person, like: establish a relationship (diversity, different thoughts, mind, culture…), they achieve individual strengths and goals with the help of the others, and with the effort of each one.

Jigsaw:

This is a very interesting technique. The students of a class are divided in groups, and each member of the groups has a topic and has to prepare it, understand it… and then a students meet with their expert group and talk about their topic, and then they have to return to their first group to show what they have learnt, and explain their topic so the most important 

of this technique is that all students learn on all topics that are being explained in the class.

Web Quest:

This is a resource which is like a tool to help students; parents and teachers on develop of the children. This is a complementary way of learning, in where students can find different webs of each subject to explore about it, and to get more information, where the teacher uploads the content and put the homework, and the activities for the children. The parents can look it to help their students or to know what their students are leaning, their homework…

So is a very useful tool to the education.

 Sociometric test:

This is a very useful tool to make student’s groups, and to value the situation of each one. In this there are few different questions which answer the children with who they would like to be in a project, in a work, or with who would like to play…

With this test the teacher can see the situation of the students in the class and try to solve the problems, the minuses and try to increase the pluses

Silvia García Rodríguez- Los RolKids. 1ºB

Cooperative learning: ''Futupasta''

This group don't have the same time to presentate the topic, who is the cooperative learning, also they introduced a little index with the explanation of what they are going to present to the class, but this group made something more, they made the job with another program and it was very original and very visual so this is the one think that I really like.
I can not learn so much things about cooperative learning having seen five works until that moment but this group sorprised everyone because they only put the real things that are interesting and that anybody hae talked about it before.
They have talked about the philosophy in the inclusive education, I have talked about it in one post before. They have talked about the Team Assisted Individualization, each student work about the same topic with a specific program, and about the Teams-Games Tournament, where the teacher give a topic to talk and the heterogeneous group have to game with something related with that topic.
Also they give the answer to work better and more times, we can meet with skype and work with google docs, where verybody can add something and it is very interesting the methods of meeting of this group. Also the roles in class have to change, the tutor have to be tutored. 
One of the things that we have to pay more attention is in the form of evaluate, this group exposed with funny faces and the differents topics to work in the job and they can put it to know where they fall and where they are nice explaining that.
I really like this group and I think that the presentation was great with the little time that they have to exposed.

Cooperative learning: ''School of bocation''

This group has talked about the cooperative learning. To begin they exposed a little index where they have differentiated the team plan and the guide, in the team plan they exposed how they worked in it and how much time they have been used to do it, of course in this point they made a little introduction about the topic.
I think that this group have worked a lot inside and outside of the university because they have all about the cooperative learning, also they made the presentation funny putting the videos about the minions and the penguins, there are so funny.
They also have included the inclusive philosophy, I have talked about that in the post before, thay also add something that is very important to work with this method that is the multiple intelligences, the students can work in any way and they can use any method that helps them for learning. They also have talked about the rules that everyone in the classroom must respect for a better work and the different parts of the team notebook, explaining everything.
Also they add the most importat thing in this method that it is that the teacher has to be a scaffolding, they can help they students to grow in their knowlegde but they can not raise to the end, also the teacher must have a planning for work, the dates when he is going to make the presentations, the dates here he is going to make the expert groups, everything, they have to prepare all. The autonomy of the class falls in the teacher, but the real autonomy falls in the students because without this members of the class is not possible to work or to do anything else. The form of evaluation have to be clear, concise and correct, paying attention to the evolution of each student, as they worked in groups and individually and if they have helped others to advance their cognitive development.
To sum up, I think that it is very well explained and it contains all.

Cooperative Learning: ''Rigatoni's angels''

The presentation, like the other groups, is about the cooperative learning, but this group at first they have shown that cooperative learning should be a subject in our education system so both teachers and students can know what it is and can used it when is possible.

This group has also shown us too many new and innovative things, but two things more important and the other groups forgetted comment.

The first of this is that group members are chosen by the teacher knowing the city where we live, the experience outside the university, sex and other things, this is very important because the teacher knows the people how compose the group consciousness. And the other thing is that the class must have a philosophy, a few slogans, even a box where they remember the motivations, to work better and to realize everything right knowing what is their goal and they can work better if they see this little motivations in the wall of the class.

I think that they can used the cooperative learning in any type of class.

Group "Rigatonis Angels" COOPERATIVE LEARNING

This group begins by explaining that cooperative learning is not only a method, but it is something that students should learn as a subject, with this, teacher training children in this new learning method. 

Other thing that I want to highlight is the way that teacher can make the different base group, members of group are chosen by teacher through:

• Sociometric test, I search information about this way because I have some doubts, and I find the next information. The teacher can have knowledge of how the group is socially related to each other as well as the benefits and implications of this interaction has on each child individually. This is  very useful in the work inside of the group, because many times the degree of integration of a child directly influences performance.
• Let them choose. In this type of choice the groups can be homogeneous or heterogeneous, because who choose are students.
• Form three columns, is the way that use our teacher the first day of the class. In this type we can folow the next steps, such as:
• where students live.
• month that they are born.
• what is their favorite color.

Other matter that I want to talk about is the distribution of the classroom, concretely "spike", like we are  in the classroom.

Then they talked about "Philosophy of the class", for that two reasons:

1. Teachers have to make that children learn why is important work with the method of Cooperative Learning.
2. Motive students with slogans such as: "be yourself", "respect opinion", to promote equality and reduce competitive situations in the classroom.

Other thing that I want to write is about the different rules for working in groups. To make this rules, It is important do it between teacher and students, because of this way, pupils are going to feel part important of this project. Some rules can be help other classmates, respect other opinions, raise your hand when you have to speak in class. This rules have to be put on a mural hanging on the wall in a visible place, with images or pictures easy to understand by students.

Group "La Banda del Patio" COOPERATIVE LEARNING

When this group has start to talk about cooperative learning in general they have show similar thing that the others groups, but I want to highlight "the equipament plan". It is like a planing where there are write difference tasks.

I also want to talk about the assessment. This group has shown a table with different items that  they are evaluated numerically. With this chart you can evaluate the group, the child individually, the work process, exposure and whether it has achieved the aims that all children understand the topic between heterogeneous groups created in the classroom. 

This evaluation is necessary to consider the assessment of teaching practice, where the teacher must be assessed himself as to the resources used, such as materials if they are correct, useful and easy to understand by students, as space, if the distribuition of classroom facilitated teamwork.

In relation to techniques, they have explained the "Jigsaw" where they have highlighted the teacher like a project coordinator in the classroom. Students work freely guided and under the supervision of teachers. To clarify this technique, they have shown us a video of a school where children is working topic "The animals. Different types of animals distributed by several expert groups in the classroom. The teacher observes how children are developing work and the explanations they give to their peers. The video was very graphic and a good example to better understand this technique.

Groups

Last Tuesday, 17- February-2015, presented some groups; and being sincere, in general I liked it.
I think that, in this way we can learn a lot and not only in consciousness, in a future proffesional. Also we can learn a lot of some topics, because we have diffrents types of explanation.

First of all, the philosophy of the class. The students that use this type of method, they are able to learn and also to learn about the day-to-day.
Continue with the rules, in the groups that they´ve presented, they explained the same rules but in differents way and in different priority. But in one of the group I´m not at all in favour, because    they´ve said to "work in silence". In this type of learning, is very important that everyone speak,respect and listen each other, This three things, for my point of view, are the priority of this type of learning. Also there are more rules but for me the other rules are in second stand, like helping each other, equal student (not racism), learn to share everything...

By, with the technique "jigsaw" the students are able to be held accountable that there no one easy form of explain, there are a lot. They no only take in this, they get used to take some ideas from the same topic and this make easier to study, to understand better the things, to be good with their classmates...

Finally, the webquest is a new tool that if you used well, you´ll have a very big succes because it´s a toll for learning, also with this tool, the student learn to use the new technologies, beacuse to use this tool they have to know how funtion the internte, the blogs, searching information...

Summing up, this method is the best one I´ve never heard, because it shows the student into the daily life.

Cooperative Learning: ''La Banda del Patio''

This group has talked about the cooperative learning. To begin they exposed a little indez where they have differentiated the team plan and the guide, in the team plan they exposed how they worked in it and how much time they have been used to do it, of course in this point they made a little introduction about the topic.

I think that with this group is with the group that I have learnt the less. Nonetheless, I have learnt that the teacher is not the centre of attention, he or she have to be in a second flat, the teacher must be give the authority to the class and the other thing that I have learnt is that work has to become a habit that is most easy and convenient.

To sum up, I think that this group also can explain what is cooperative learning but not at all.

Cooperative learning: ''The differents''

This group has talked about the cooperative learning. To begin they exposed a little indez where they have differentiated the team plan and the guide, in the team plan they exposed how they worked in it and how much time they have been used to do it, of course in this point they made a little introduction about the topic.
All the groups have talked about the same topic, but with this group I learnt more than with the others. One of the things that I have learnt is that the different academic levels are not a difficulty, another thing that I have learnt is that one of the ''rule'' that the class have to make when verybody are working in cooperative learning groups is that we don't have to talk so high because if not we create a noise polluted environment, and the last one but not less important in the importance of the teamnotebook, in that notebook the secretary have to put all that the gropu have make to not forget, also they can put everything realted with the topic or with something else that they think that it is related with the topic that they will talk later.
To sum up, I think that this group can teach what is the cooperative learning to everybody.

Group “The Differents” COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Different academics levels are positive for this method because It is what do positive to work in the classroom to attend of the diversity. This give meaning what guide talk about “Philosophy of inclusive classroom", as everyone learns to everyone, here can be everyone, I have a right to learn according to my ability, and I have a right to be myself. This is connected when the group has told us the rules about share everything, everyone is equal with same right, help classmate, participate, respect, work listen to classmate and be specific.

Other thing that I want to highlight of the exhibition It is when the group has talked about the “notebook team”, where you have to write information and several thing of the process of work in group, individual, behavior, knowledge…