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.