Please choose one or two of the following concepts we have learned in class from Chapter 1, 2 and 3 and define or explain them in your own words:
- The characteristics of how children learn at home
- The characteristics of how children learn at school
- The shock children have when they begin school and experience those differences
- The functions of schools
- Facts about language
- Clusters of concepts that young children should become familiar with, over time
- Emergent literacy
- Structures and activities
- Competitive and cooperative structures in learning
- Describe one of the Cooperative Structures learned in class. (objectives, procedure, and variations)
- Total Physical Response and oral activities
Your post must be at least 250-words.
Your objective in this entry is to have a final review before the test on Wednesday, so please be truthful and responsible about your answers, because your classmates will be reading them and if they are not correct then you would be misleading them to fail in the test.
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Emergent Literacy
Marie Clay introduced to us the term ‘Emergent Literacy’ and it describes how children gradually become aware of the uses of written language in their environment, even though, this term has been coined since literally a lot time ago, it was not till the past decade that educational literature decided to widely use it. Before researchers thought that these skills (reading and writing) could not be developed in children till they were mature enough to assimilate the content, what they did not expect and what actual researchers got to know is that these abilities can be developed since an early age by recognizing symbols of famous restaurants or by the television with the introduction of new toys brands, as for example ‘children got to see a new television commercial about the newest toys by nature they will want to have it, and so they start to recognize the toy’s brand name.’ there also another situations in which children start by themselves to recognize symbols (letters and words) as they start to be conscious not only of the things they are familiar with but also of the things they found interesting and are most likable to use.
Accordingly, by demonstrating these results they now have gotten prior knowledge that will be useful at school making the teachers to rehearse it by given scientific awareness of the usage of words and letters, and of course the enhancement of their gross motor development to get custom to the usage of a pen since they can start by breaking them on their first try.
FACTS ABOUT LANGUAGE
ReplyDeleteLanguage is a human universal: The language is universal because we all have the ability to communicate based on a set of signs and rules of each language.
Language is systematic: in their functioning they show previously established rules known by speakers. Each language has its own characteristics, sounds, words, phrases and sentences.
Language Change: it is constantly changing and cannot stop changing. Language adapts to the needs of people, it means that we don’t t speak in the same way that in the past was spoken, especially because new technologies, new products, and new experiences require new words to refer to them clearly and efficiently.
Human beings have an innate capacity to learn language: According to Noam Chomsky's research, children are born with an innate capacity for speech. They are capable of learning and assimilating communicative and linguistic structures.
Language can be non-verbal as well as verbal: The verbal communication represents that in which we use words, sound or auditory signs. For its part, non-verbal communication is one in which we use visual signs that are not words, such as gestures or the use of writing.
Language and culture are closely related: Language and culture are intimately linked; one depends on the other to exist, without words man cannot think rationally. It can be said that as language develops, the greater the capacity of the individual to construct concepts, acquire knowledge, elaborate meanings, but at the same time, it serves to transmit them, to express them.
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ReplyDeleteCHARACTERISTICS OF HOW CHILDREN LEARN AT SCHOOL:
1.- In preschool students are in a structured setting.
A highly structured environment helps children to learn, share and follow instructions, raise their hands when they want to ask questions, take turns and share the teacher attention.
2.- Students interact with other children and adults.
Children are not born with social skills, they have to learn them. In school, he/she has the chance to play with other children. It is a great way for children to develop the skill he/she needs to get on with others.
Preschool education has been deemed a critical period for cognitive development, school preparation and success, language development and learning motivation, as well as for developing children´s social and emotional competence.
Children at school interact with adults, especially teachers. Children need to see teachers as supportive and helpful. They need adults to help them feel safe and secure, love and appreciated. Teachers in preschool are the second most influential force in the development of children after their parents.
3.- Empower students to take responsibility of their own learning.
The teacher must not make all the decisions; he should encourage students to make decisions about how they learn best. Create opportunities for them to pursue and practice skills in a variety of ways.
4.- School systematize the process of learning.
Schools systematize learning because education is systematic process through which a child or an adult acquire knowledge, experience, skills and sound attitude.
5.- Students learn by using objects in many different ways.
When the child is experimenting, exploring and creating with a range of materials, he/she learns about problem solving in situations that where there are no set or right answers.
Emergent literacy
ReplyDeleteAccording to the research that I did to understand this topic I have found that Emergent Literacy was a term used by Marie Clay in New Zealand in 1966. She was a distinguished researcher in education because she wanted to help children improve in their reading and writing skills. So, knowing that in New Zealand there was a gap between good and poor achievers in literacy of children because of the environment in which they were immersed.
So, before this emergent literacy, researchers thought that language can be developed through readiness skills in kindergarten, such as recognizing colors, shapes, numbers, sounds, or following directions and paying attention, to prepare them for complex academic activities in elementary school. However, was not enough because they realized that in order to teach a child how to read and write it was important to help them develop cognitive emergent literacy skills, so we as teacher can help them across three useful aspects such as the Alphabet, phonological awareness and vocabulary.
Alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness play an important role in the acquisition of the language. because there is a relation between grapheme (print words) and phoneme (the sounds of the letters).so they can start with the strategy of identifying their own name, and letters in words that are interesting for them. in addition, nowadays this is the updated approach “phonological awareness” which helps students identify syllables and followed by rime awareness in order to involved them in reading skill.
Also teach tem vocabulary could help them to improve in their reading and writing skills because they will be able to understand meanings from a text.
Personally to sum up we as teachers should know that during early childhood we can provide children the opportunity to develop skills of emergent literacy instead just focusing on language. So that following the Alphabet knowledge and phonological awareness we can get a better result from them when they are involved in reading skill.
The characteristics of how children learn at home
ReplyDeleteAll human beings begin to learn from the moment we are born. During the first years of life, it is when we begin to have our first experiences with our environment and thus begin to acquire a home learning. Learning from an early age promotes the development of the child, encouraging his motor, social and intellectual formation.
The beginning of learning at home from the early years of life in children, provides many benefits, such as the development of their intelligence, personality and social behavior with other children and others, for such reasons it is important to start education at home from the early years of life.
According to Piaget, during the first 3 years of life children are like “sponges” as they absorb everything around them; imitation of symbolic games, drawings, behaviors and spoken language. How it is formed and how it needs to be educated indicates that 75% of the maturation of the nervous system is genetically programmed while the remaining 25% depends on experience.
It therefore recommends that children start learning early.
Rodriguez, author of The Child’s Mind
It is at this stage that child development is encouraged if sensory perceptions are offered in enriched environments. Likewise, from the emotional point of view, in the first 6 years of life the subject builds the bases of his self-esteem, develops confidence, security, autonomy and initiative, in his relationship with other people and with the culture to which he belongs.
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Dr. Spencer Kagan proposed his model about cooperative learning in 1985 in his book 'Cooperative Learning Structures'. In his model, he mainly advocated two basic principles. He first stated that the world is pretty much competitive while in some fields it isn't that much. However, you have to be fully equipped with knowledge in the fields you are going to face. Coming to the second principle, he wanted to have a learning method which was a mixture between competitive and individualistic, with cooperative classroom organization so that it could help in preparing the students for complete sort of social situations. According to Dr. Spencer Kagan, there are some advantages and disadvantages of cooperative learning. Starting with academic achievements has been increased among those who have used cooperative learning. Cooperative learning also builds an ethnic relation among students creating mutual understanding between them. Cooperative learning also increases one's self-esteem, social skills, and study skills. It teaches student empathy and builds social relationships. In other words; Cooperative learning is more than just group learning or group work. It is strategies built with the express purpose of ensuring all students participating share the work equally and have a vested interest in succeeding. Through collaborative learning structures, students are able to hold one another accountable. This happens all while working on embedded social skills and achieving a common goal. In short, cooperative learning activities are a model for real-life work experiences. They require participants to work together collaboratively with positive interdependence. On the other hand Competitive learning is a traditional style of learning in which students are competing to participate in an activity. The most prevalent example of this would be when a teacher poses a question to the whole class and students raise their hands. This style of learning allows only one student to participate at a time. This leaves other students to become unengaged or frustrated.
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The characteristics of how children learn at home and at school
ReplyDeleteIn our society, every day we can see how many children born and the process how they grow. One important fact that is very interesting to know is how they learn at home and in the school. At the home young children learn a language through everyday play and exploration in a safe and stimulating environment. Lots of time spent playing, talking, listening and interacting with the family or the caregivers help the child learns the skills he or she needs for life, like communicating, thinking, problem-solving, moving and being with other people and children. The transition into school represents a major step in a child’s life. The first day of school is often marked by special events and rites that hold both individual and social significance. At school, they have to learn how interact with new adults and children. They are already proficient communicators when they come to a classroom, they are going to able to tell what happen in their houses last weekend or what is their favorite animal for example. They use the language in the classroom to ask questions, interpret, negotiate, comment and wonder. In the classroom teachers need to try have meaning making activities and provide a save atmosphere in which every the students might feel comfortable to express what they are thinking or how they feel in different situations respecting the others¬ opinion. Something important to remember is that at school they have to follow a specific schedule and routines in which they learn to associate what they know with something new that they are learning. Language is the key to create thinking, solving problems and collaborative learning.
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The functions of schools
Is an important funtion to teach the basic cognitive skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics; to transmit specific knowledge, for example in literature, history and sciences; and to help students acquire higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
The school is a place for the contemplation of reality, and our task as teachers, in simplest terms, is to show this reality to our students, who are naturally eager about them.At home, we teach reality to children in a profoundly personal, informal, and unstructured way.In school, we teach reality in professional, formal and structured way.
In social purposes is to socialize children into the various roles, behaviors, and values of the society.
In politacal purposes is to inculcate allegiance to the existing political order (patriotism); to prepare citizens who will participate in the political order; to help assimilate diverse cultural groups into a common political order; and to teach children the basic law of society.
In economic purposes is to prepare students for their later occupational roles and to select, train, and allocate individuals into the devision of labor.
Nowadays it is very important to include students in a new era that is about technology. Technology is simply a tool to aid education and learning, also technology should not be told as a separate schools subject, but as a tool, technology should be used in all classrooms. Any learning concerning technology should be based around the theme and objectives of the class.The place of technology in pedagogy is based on various factors and questions of effectiveness, time saving, increased outcomes etc.Schools are spending money on technology but they don’t know what it's for how to use it. And because they spent so much money on the technology they lack in spending more on training teachers properly on how to use it. So the end result of this is that things such as interactive whiteboards end up being glorified TV sets in the classroom or simply used as regular whiteboards.
In conclusion each of the aforementioned learnings, go hand in hand with the technology that is spoken and taught today. There is no issue that does not include technology, one of the biggest challenges for schools to include as a function of providing this knowledge to the individual of this century.
Emergent literacy was originally conceived by Marie Clay as a way to convey this process of development. Emergent literacy is the idea that learning literacy actually begins at a very early age, long before official lessons in school. This term is used to describe the knowledge a child has of reading and writing before reaching the age where those skills are taught. Emergent literacy argues that right after birth, children are already in the process of becoming literate. Children prepare to read long before they enter school. In fact, early literacy skills begin to develop right from birth. A child's positive early experiences with books and language lay the foundation for success in learning to read. Early Literacy begins at birth and builds on relationships and experiences that occur during infancy and early childhood. For example, introducing a child to books at an early age contributes to a later interest in reading. Reading together while he or she sits on your lap promotes bonding and feelings of trust. Children with combined vision and hearing loss miss out on many of the experiences that happen incidentally for other children, but rich early learning experiences can be provided when families, teachers, and caregivers build trusting relationships with these children, know what their favorite objects and activities are, and recognize their array of communication signals. Following a child's lead provides a wealth of information about what will be most interesting and motivating to a particular child. Incorporating familiar and favorite objects, people, and activities into early learning experiences is essential to achieving positive results.
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The shock children have when they begin school and experience those differences
ReplyDeleteEvery parent need to know that their children will have different reactions when they go to preschool for the first time. Children usually get aware about staying long periods of time away from home and from their parents because it is not easy that transition, they come from one caregiver (mom or dad) who does everything that she/he can do in order to help the little child, to another world, where they have to share the adult’s attention and also they are in the middle of many caregiver in preschool. It is important not to force your children to go to preschool, if they are not ready to do it, because it can be really traumatic causing their demotivation to go to class. Children need to go by their own pace, if they go faster you have to do it, too; but if they take their time to do everything, you have to do it, in the same way. Many structures are unknown to children, so when they receive that amount of information, like to say Good Moring, thank you, sorry, stand up and those commands, they realize the fact that their home is not the same as the school and they have to stay there many hours.
All of those things are really important for children to get in shock or not when they begin preschool. Although there are some students that enjoy at all staying at school the first time or even the last one. There are others students that get in shock the first time they go to school and nobody can change that at once, they need to get confidence in that person who is giving you respect and who is taking care about you.
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Total Physical Response (TPR)
According to Dr. James J. Asher, a professor of psychology at San Jose State University, to collaborate in language learning. The method lies in the assumption that when an additional language is learned, this language is internalized through a process of code deciphering, similar to the development of the first language and this process allows a long period of development of comprehension before the language production. Students are called to respond physically to verbal commands.-The TPR is primarily intended for teachers who teach English as an additional language1 2 and therefore as a method of teaching other languages.
-The TPR is based on the premise that the human brain is biologically programmed to learn any natural language, including the sign language of the deaf. The process is visible when we observe how babies internalize language.
- It addresses the way in which children learn their mother tongue. The communication between parents and children combines the verbal and motor skills, the child responds physically to the verbal commands of the father. The child's response is in turn positively reinforced with the voice of the father. For many months, the child absorbs the language without being able to speak. It is during this period that the internalization and decryption of messages occurs. After this stage, the child is able to reproduce the language spontaneously.
In the classroom, the teacher and the student take the roles similar to the father and the child respectively. Students must physically respond to the teacher's words. The activity can be as simple as Simon says or more complex games that include more complex grammar and more detailed scenarios. It is also useful for telling stories.
Due to its approach, the TPR method can be used as an alternative to teach students with dyslexia or some problem related to learning,
This technique is especially useful when teaching a foreign language. The first skills that are practiced are receptive and it is commonly accepted that the student will go through a period of silence before producing any oral or written message. Between these two phases there is an intermediate in which the student can respond physically to show the understanding of a message. Some games and songs (action songs) based on the "Total Physical Response" technique,
So those are your TPR activities in the classroom.
- Simon says (variant): The teacher is indicating actions (clap, jump, raise your hand, etc) and is doing them at the same time as the children. In a second step the teacher indicates the actions, but does not perform them, only the children will do it. In a last variant, the teacher can cheat the children by performing an action different from the one indicated. Those who make mistakes can be eliminated. All students like it
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- "Head, shoulders, knees and toes": Song about body parts. As you name them, the child touches that part of the body, in the form of a dance.
-"Here we go round the mulberry bush": Song about actions. The child performs the mimicry that corresponds to each action.
- "If you're happy and you know it". Song about emotions. The child makes a gesture or sound associated with each emotion.
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Children start to learn language from the day they are born. As they grow and develop, their speech and language skills become increasingly more complex. They learn to understand and use language to express their ideas, thoughts, and feelings, and to communicate with others. During early speech and language development, children learn skills that are important to the development of literacy (reading and writing). This stage, known as emergent literacy, begins at birth and continues through the preschool years. Children see and interact with print (e.g., books, magazines, grocery lists) in everyday situations (e.g., home, in preschool, and at daycare) well before they start elementary school. Parents can see their child's growing appreciation and enjoyment of print as he or she begins to recognize words that rhyme, scribble with crayons, point out logos and street signs, and name some letters of the alphabet. Gradually, children combine what they know about speaking and listening with what they know about print and become ready to learn to read and write.
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You can help your child develop literacy skills during regular activities without adding extra time to your day. There also are things you can do during planned play and reading times. Show your children that reading, and writing are a part of everyday life and can be fun and enjoyable. Activities for preschool children include the following:
• Talk to your child and name objects, people, and events in the everyday environment.
Talk to your child during daily routine activities such as bath or mealtime and respond to his or her questions.
• Draw your child's attention to print in everyday settings such as traffic signs, store logos, and food containers.
• Introduce new vocabulary words during holidays and special activities such as outings to the zoo, the park, and so on.
• Engage your child in singing, rhyming games, and nursery rhymes.
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Competitive and cooperative structures in learning
ReplyDeleteAlong the years in the teaching world, new structures for teaching language to students have been developed, and old ones are evolving. Two of the most well-known structures used by teachers are the competitive and cooperative structure. The first one creates a negative interdependence among students; it means that the failure of one could mean the success of the other one. Whole-Class Question Answer is an example of competitive structure, in which students compete to get the teacher´s approvement and attention, and are set against each other. On the other hand, a cooperative structure seeks to create a more inclusive environment for all students, making the faster students help those who take more time to get things. One good example for a cooperative structure can be Numbered Heads Together, where students are grouped and given a number, they are given a question and must put their heads together so everyone in the group knows the answer; in this way, all students cooperate and help each other.
Total Physical Response and oral activities
TPR is a language teaching method which believes that people learn best when they are actively involved in activities that required movement and they understand the language they hear. The TPR method works the target language with games and drills, making the language class enjoyable, fun and sometimes ridiculous, but children love ridiculousness so they will remember the vocabulary practiced. Just one drawback that I find with this method is that it does not work too well with more advanced students or adults as it does with kids.
THE FUNCTION OF THE SCHOOL
ReplyDeleteThe school is one of the most important institutions for which depend the good human developing, for that reason, it is essential that as teachers we do strategies to make of the school one comfortable place. Mary Ashworth and Patricia Wakefield explain that the function of the school is to broaden children´s range of experiences; in effect, children grow intellectually with the help that they receive in the school, and is true that maybe this does not happen always because not all the children need the school to develop some of their skills, for some children is enough the learning in home. The thing is that in home not always there is someone to correct their wrongs, so, is in that moment when the role of the school begin to be necessary… why?.. because in the school they can work in their weakness and try to develop their strongest, this also depend of the role that the teachers take.
In the school, children have the opportunity to grow in all the aspects (create new knowledges and put in practice them, strengthen their skills, create experiences and make of them an effective learning, etc..). All these things can be as effective as the school environment could be. In conclusion, the function of the school depends of what the teachers want to teach, and what they want to children learn. They have to take in count firstly the develop of this second language, I mean, teachers have to be smarts in the role that they are taking and create a lot of strategies and method that can be effective to meet what the students want and need to learn, and if is possible exceeding expectations.
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This is my opinion from the different facts about language.
As teachers of the English language as a second language we have to know that language is a universal task of the human being and that therefore it is systematic that it follows norms, rules, structures, order , understand that all languages can be spoken and create new declarations whenever it is used and used as a means of communication.
The language is functional because everything that is learned or developed involves a space of use and if it is functional at the same time it is creative and produces new learning. Language is changing if it is changing , it is functional, creative cannot remain unchanged.
Human beings are innate in learning when we teach little children little by little until they understand what we intend to set in their memories. Therefore to be able to teach you have to resort to many options that express the meaning of what you want to express, we use mimics, sounds, sinuses, gestures, and other movements of the body this shows us that language can not only be expressed verbally.
Language also has to do with culture, traditions, values, history, religion, and other manifestations that express it with language throughout the entire learning that serves us as a means of communication between children and adults especially if we refer to learning another in this case English as a second language.
The children need to learn from the adults who are leading the teaching we have the responsibility to be clear and adjust to the level they have at that time. Language is also a tool for learning. As teachers of English as a second language we need to be models with a variety of activities so that they can easily assimilate the new language.
Clusters of concepts that young children should become familiar with, over time
ReplyDeleteChildren complement their physical, psychological and intellectual development according to the situations they live with different people and the relationships that surround them, they need it to develop the development in their growth
The following are some of the cluster of concepts that young children should become familiar with over time:
Identification: objects and materials that the child uses to recognize some activities, games or habits in the home are necessary for a correct development
Classification: the child learns to group, to separate by color, number, size, shape and kind is important to differentiate and compare what surrounds him
Spatial relationships: the environment must be appropriate and suitable for the child, knowing places and state of affairs gives confidence to their environment. You can make games or activities where the child understands the locations such as up and down, right and left, back and front, etc.
Temporal relationship: A complicated subject to teach children is: time.
Teaching him to differentiate the times becomes a challenge when we talk about verbs and structures even if it is little and simple, with activities and songs are teaching methods that we can use to teach this topic.
Emotional and familiar relationship: Children are more emotional and attached sentimentally than adults, so teaching methods influence this.
Teaching a child to develop their emotions, to differentiate between each emotion becomes a daily task, since each day for him is a new adventure that does not know how it will end.
Family members play an important role in these teaching as the child feels at home is how he will behave in school.
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The Functions of Schools
School is the second home for students, there learn to develop in society, is where it applies all the values that are taught in their homes.
The school must fulfill a formative role and be a development in society. In schools, prepares people to be free adults in a few words. The school must transmit knowledge about different subjects such as: In Spanish, Mathematics, Science, Technology, today is very important to have knowledge in the use of computers, phones, tablets, and also in values and healthy habits to be people Integrity, responsible for their actions and capable of solving the problems of life.
They also learn to build their own identity; to be responsible, punctual; to fulfill certain obligations; subjection of rules; learn to know its history; the history of the world; know what is their role in society; determine its existence; he knows the development of the sciences, is't possible that he finds his vocation, that he would like to be great?.
The school is the center where students will spend certain hours learning from each subject, but it is also the place where they spend the time their parents work and can not attend them. In this way it also becomes a place that welcomes students during school hours. Hours of work of the parents, then while the students are in their schools receiving classes, their parents work to give them a better education.
The shock children have when they begin school and experience those differences
ReplyDeleteOne of the most important events in a child's life is to begin their school stage. Children are part of an unstructured learning that they have learned in their homes, many of them have the exclusive attention of a nanny and this can be either positive or negative when they start school. The school is in charge of expanding knowledge and systematize the teaching processes, in the same way to develop their social skills, help them interact between one another. The role of the teacher is very important it is to empower students with the skills and values necessary to create responsibility in the student and help in the development of critical thinking. The teacher should help the student to expand the experiences he/she acquire at home, to increase their prior knowledge and help reach his/her maximum potential. However, what many schools do is to limit the student and make them learn in a different way what they have learned at home. When there is not a pleasant atmosphere in the school, the student can face problems and discomforts and instead of increasing their knowledge and skills these are diminished.
Emergent Literacy
This is a phrase coined by Marie Clay in 1966. This explains that children assimilate reading and writing skills before beginning their school stage. For example, many associate words with images and letters with figures, which is why children tend to doodles on paper believing that are letters, or know the name of some restaurants like McDonald. Even though they cannot read they can identify the symbol that represents it. Before the use of the term Emergent Literacy It believed that students began to identify what writing and reading were only when they started their school years, which is totally incorrect. Today children develop skills that were previously thought only were developed while being in a classroom, this is due to the technology that is now available and the teaching methods that parents are implementing from home. These skills in the child can vary according to their level of maturity and how their parents treat and educate him/her, so the stage of teaching does not start at school, it starts at home.
I would like to talk about cooperative and competitive learning structures.
ReplyDeleteThe Structural Approach to Cooperative Learning attempts to increase, create and apply systematic structures to provide social interaction in the classroom.
Competitive Structures are the most common structures used in our country, perhaps because are easy and do not demands too much planning or preparation.
Competitive structures are characterized as structures that promote students to compete for the teacher’s attention.
A traditional competitive structure is: Whole Class Question Answer:
Teacher asks a question and students raise hands to catch teacher’s attention and answer; only one student answers while the others just listen and feel uncomfortable because most of the time the same student answers most of the questions, students are set against each other creating selfish students.
In the other hand we have Cooperative Structures. These structures create a better environment to learn. Cooperative Structures magnify student’s interdependency, increase student’s interaction and fortify self-confidence.
Some Cooperative Structures are: Jigsaw, Think-Pair-Share, Inner-Outer Circle, and Number Heads.
Last 3 weeks I have been applying Inner-Outer Circle with my students, they were really confused the 1st time; but now they know exactly what to do and they feel capable to talk others about what they know.
These are the steps you need to follow in Inner Outer Circle:
Divide the class in 2 equal groups, have half of the students make a circle, then have the other half of students make a circle around the first circle. Students must be in front of a classmate. Next, teacher asks a question and students answer the question to the classmate in front of them. Students move 2 or 3 steps to the right and teacher asks another question and so on.
Definitely, Cooperative Learning Structures make learning meaningful for kids and open teacher’s lesson planning with a variety of that will enhance teaching experience.