Lets talk about Grouping Students Developed by Jean McCormack The school year is well underway and teachers and students are working toward a goal of every student cooperating and respecting each person in the class. Teachers work towards this goal by offering many opportunities for different groups of students to collaborate. Go to this url ( exclusive.multibriefs/content/grouping-students-heterogeneous-homogeneous-and-random-grouping-structures#exclusive.multibriefs/content/grouping-students-heterogeneous-homogeneous-and-random-grouping-structures ) to link to an informative article that discusses homogenous and heterogeneous groups and methods. Join the conversation and let us know what grouping methods you use in your class and what has proven to be the best methods for you.Join our CLOI BLOG (commlearnonline/blog/ ) Commonwealth Learning Online Institute (CLOI) offers practical applications of student groupings in our Developing Comprehension course. One method of grouping students for a text comprehension activity is to use Jigsaw groups. The Jigsaw technique involves creating Home and Expert groups of students. This is an excellent tool to develop students’ collaborative skills in working with many students. Click this url youtu.be/mtm5_w6JthA to view the video shown in this course. As the article above states, there are simple methods to create groups and technology tools to assist you. One such application (app) is RandoMeister; elementarysoftware. This app allows you to adjust for an absent student and prevent any problematic groupings. Click this url to check out the app website (elementarysoftware/#elementarysoftware).
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