Describe how a teacher might set up groups for a cooperative learning activity
What will be an ideal response?
Ethnicity and gender diversity contributes to the collaborative process. Groups should reflect the composition of the community outside it. Teachers should assign of mix of higher-/lower-performing, more verbal/less verbal, and more task-oriented/less task-oriented.
Four suggestions for forming groups were given:
1. Choose a few higher performing students to provide encouragement and support for students who may be unengaged during group work
2. Randomly assign students by having them count off
3. Use heterogeneous groups form each of the following groups: majority, and minority, children with and without disabilities, between boys and girls.
4. Share with students the process of choosing group members
In addition, structuring the task reduces the problems of active and passive un-involvement. Teachers should create tasks so that all students are actively involved.
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Ken is a narrative researcher. Of the following, which is the most likely purpose for his study of multiethnic classrooms?
a. To help the school create policies to assist incoming students b. To understand a teacher's experiences in a dynamic multiethnic classroom c. To correlate student performance with teacher experiences teaching in multi-ethnic schools d. To examine differences in student achievement by teacher ethnicity in multiethnic schools
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A. Explanation B. Description C. Prediction D. Change
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