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