Group and Pair Work

Group work can be an effective method to motivate students, encourage active learning, and develop key critical-thinking, communication, and decision-making skills. But without careful planning and facilitation, group work can frustrate students and instructors and feel like a waste of time.

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asking for advice!

Grades: 8th, Main topic: Access to Written and Oral Information
This unit deals with the issue of asking for advice. Initially, the pupils understand the issue from a personal perspective. The pupil recognizes situations when people ask for advice and then develops the ability to give advice to others

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The Jigsaw Method

This cooperative learning strategy increases student engagement, encourages collaboration, and results in better learning. Learn how to use the basic Jigsaw method, a...

The In-Class Flip

This method takes time to set up, but is effective in having students move from station to station in groups

Chat Stations for Class Discussion

Want a quick and easy tool to get students more active and engaged with content? You'll find this with Chat Stations, a discussion framework so simple you can use it ...

Group Roles

Strategies for teaching and learning: Assigning group roles in the classroom

Group and Pair Work

This article discusses the challenges and benefits of using pair and group work in monolingual classes

Assigning Roles

Assigning group roles can be a beneficial strategy for successful group work design

Collaborative Learning

The main characteristics of collaborative learning are: a common task or activity, small group learning, cooperative behavior, interdependence, and individual respons...

Pros and Cons of Group Work

Group work has pros and cons. Teachers should be aware of both

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Group and Pair Work

Grades and main subjects in curriculum