Working in groups experience

The past two weeks in my class of didactics we have been experienced the process working in groups. First of all, our teacher asked a student of my class to make heterogeneous groups of 5 people, this groups had to become ‘’specialist’’ of a topic there were two topics one was the diversity of the class and the other one was cooperative work. As you can imagine mine was the diversity of the class.

                We had a lot of information about the diversity of the class, so it was impossible for us to read them all. So, what did we do? We became specialist about little topics of the diversity of the class so then we could share our information with the other members of the group so finally we would have understood everything. I think my group did pretty well because we all had many conclusions and some schemes, so the pooling was pretty easy also it was very rewarding because we all went deeper in every topic and also as a lot of information was common we helped each other and if we hadn’t understood something, the other person would have explained us. Next class we make different groups of people with the same topic, so we shared the information with each other, it was very nice because we have left something about the diversity of the class and the other group as well so we increased our information.

                And this week what we have done is getting all the groups with the same topic together so we shared all our information, including some details and then we had to prepare the information with the people of the other topic. For me, getting together all the groups of the same topic at first, was a bit overwhelming but then, once we all starting to work it actually provides me with a lot of feedback, new information and different  points of view(Actually I’m  adding new information to my latest post). Then the teacher asked me to make groups of three people in which one of them had to be someone who doesn’t usually speaks so he or she had to be the one leading the teaching to the students of the other topic, doing this task was interesting and I had to select carefully the people who was going to talk, It was not precisely simple but it was interesting to do it.

                Finally, once we were in the work groups, we looked for ways to teach the other group. My group decided to try not to only explaining it by words but also with pictures and videos. I think we also did it pretty well and our colleague of the other topic told us she had understood it well. Finally, next week the other the people of the other topic are going to teach us about cooperative learning. I think being on the other side have to be also interesting. I’ll tell you about it next week!