On the one hand I want to explain I think the best thing this work have is the diversity of the contents because when the teachers bring us a big document and some information about one topic and demand a homework that can be do in our own way every group has different "important things" and topics to teach to the others because the things that are less important for me can be the most important for other partner. It makes that the works are very different and at last the learning is very complete: we learn our things and the things that explain other persons in their groups.
On the other hand is important to speak about my learning process too: It's the first time I have worked trough cooperative learning and I could learn it's a good methodology to teach my future pupils because they learn too many things a part of contents like values, respect to the others' opinions, working in groups... but I think to learn how to learn through cooperative learning we should teach the pupils since they are very little because it's too difficult to follow the methodology when we're adults like in the university because we're not prepared to work in groups in the best way. One thing that have helped us too much is the working tables: it's a good method to organize the work and to make it equal for all of us. In this way all people are clear about her/his roles and his/her work to do it.
How I have said previously the best thing of this work is de diversity:
CRÓNICAS VIAJERAS:
MIGUEL CARAZO, AMAYA, SILVIA AND ELVIRA.
This group talked about the importance of all person in the working group: all people have got voice and the same importance to make decisions in the group without take care the fact opinions: all voices are important. It makes real in two ways: our voice, like opinion, is important but we can look at this explaining that cooperative learning help to shy people to talk in the group and to be more sociable because all people have to speak in some moments and explain their thinking and their opinions to the others in the group to do a better work.
The main idea this group have transmitted me is cooperative learning help in the development of the child and to develop their own personality because all people get a role in the class and in the group with different skills so all people can learn for all people.
Crónicas Viajeras highlighted different types of working groups in order to make it clear: the responsible to make it is the teacher because is necessary to make different groups for different type of task. If the teacher knows the different types of groups and the skills of their pupils he/she can do this groups in a better way and it's more easy to teach the contents he/she wants. They highlighted the changing roles too: they explain very well the jigsaw structure about cooperative learning and it's too important to change the roles in a few time because in this way all people can be all things and they learn to do all things in the group.
I think this presentation was very interesting and if i had to give an advice to this group I would said: ¡Be creative! I think they can improve their presentations if they are more interesting in the way of their presentations giving images related with the contents, making it more colorful or with a topic for example... definitively more visual to make it more clear.
AMIGOS DEL
FOOTBALL:
ALEX, ÇISEM, MELIKE, SANDRA.
Is nice to see the organization of this group because they made the most part of their work in classes hours and they haven't got to have too much meetings outside the classroom. Their work tables was incredible.
About cooperative learning his group prepared one of the best activities in the hole class: we had to draw a circle and then we have to write our hobbies, personal skills, our likes... inside so our partners could see a lot of things about our personality and our preferred things to spend our free time. I think it's a good method to know my partners and my parent's knows me. It's a good starting for a relationships between pupils in the same class. I think it's a good activity to do in my future as a teacher.
A part of the activity I think the presentation of this group have got a lot of remarkable ideas but I think that here are a review of the most important thing they have explained:
THE PARTICIPATION IN THE GROUP: All people should be an important person in the group so they should have a role and too many things to do in equal quantity of the rest of the group members. It means that everybody have to work hard making their "job" and everybody have to opine about the others' ideas and opinions to make it well.
DISCUSIING ARE THE BEST METHOD: This group proposed that trough discussions we reach the best idea because if all of we give their main ideas and their opinions about the other ideas the content is grown and improved increasingly. Teachers should teach to their pupils how to argue with respect and good arguments so children learn values too, a part of improve their communicate skills and development. They become aware too many times to hear is more important than to speak.
CELEBRATIONS: One think that caught my attention was their idea of celebration: they explained working group celebrations is a good motivation for the group: if they think this work is well they should go to celebrate it because cooperative learning isn't only to work so it is coexistence and having fun too in a few moments like this. If we celebrate our reach goals we will be more motivated to do the next work.
Their presentation collected the main ideas of cooperative learning but also it have got original things that other groups didn't pick up in their works, like de disadvantages to work in groups or the importance of reward all the pupils inside the work. It highlights the motivation too.
I think this group can be more original with their contents because they can investigate too much as they do for this job to try to be more useful and to teach interesting things for other groups but the presentation was great because it was funny and it was easy to follow it.
MUSICAL CHAIRS:
Irene, Bea, David and Ayperi.
This was the first presentation about cooperative learning and we can say how they have been preparing the presentation all together because the presentation was very fluent.
The exposition was based in a guide building by the hole group about cooperative learning for people who don't knows anything about this method. They put in a poster the main ideas and concepts to explain to us in a better way. As a result it make clear the things they want to do it,
They explain the most of the concepts of cooperative learning in the same way as the other groups: works with respect, all people have to collaborate, diversity is important, pupils can get knowledge form other pupils, the role of each boy and girl is important ... all things I explained yet but I think the original idea of this group is the non-competitive classes. I mean: they explain that cooperative learning is a method without competitiveness for teaching. To us is too complicate to think in a school without competitiveness because since we was very young the education teach to us to be competitive, to get the best mark, to get the best result in gymnastics for example or to do the best model in arts but really they don't teach us to learn. Now we're adults we can see that it's not necessary a A in a exam to think he have learned one topic but when I was a child the mentality was very different: If you pass the exam, you knows one thing. In fact if you don't pass the exam you haven't learned but they don't try you learn some things trough other methods. It's a pressure for children and it make it competitive. I think we should teach to the pupils to be competitive but in another way: only when it's necessary, for example, when we are doing oppositions because to reach your goal you have to be the best. While it's no necessary they have to coexist with harmony and helping their partners.
I think this tool is very important inside cooperative learning: pupils have to understand they aren't in a competition, they are in a team and this times, together, forms a class.
It was explained very well for the group and I feel identified because I think the same as musical chair's group. I really enjoy this presentation!
THE UNKNOWS:
VIRGINIA, MARINA, MARTA AND ALFONSO.
This group made a prezi with their information about the topic to explain us it. It has got an index to structure the work, a good idea that nobody have.
The content was the same as other groups. They stand out the role rotating that I have explained with "Crónicas viajera" and teacher as a guide.
The activity they realize was very fun and different form the other activities in the class. We had to put in a circle along the classroom and, with a ball, we had to say things we like. Then the game changes to things that we don't like. It was for make teams with similar likes. For me, for example, the group was "Music lovers" and all people in my group love music or playing an instrument. It's a good idea to find people with similar hobbies inside the class and to know the rest of the class. With children it has got two functions, I think: on the one side the children knows the others and find people sharing their likes but on the other side the teacher knows his pupils, their likes and how they act in the classroom with different activities or games.
To improve their presentations this "The unknowns" can do more dynamic presentations with visual things or making it with a theme related to de subject or their group.
TEAM PERK:
JAVI, IRINA, SARA GRANIZO AND SILVIA.
All thing that I think it's import from this group is the presentation: they made it putting photos of a real cooperative learning school so we can see how they work, the organization of the classes...
Their activity was a funny game too: We had to pass a tennis ball to our partners saying rules that our class should to have. I think it's a good form to make the rules of a class because all pupils can say a different rule and as a result we have got a very various norms in the class, for all.
For finished they made a great working tables: we can see a very very good organization in the group; I think they are working very well together!
MODERN STUDENTS:
MARIA ENCINAS, BORJA, PATRICIA, ELIA, AND SHABANEH.
This group was very original because to explain their ideas of cooperative learning they did a poster whit a lot of things inside and we had to participate in their exposition because they explained the different skills on cooperative learning and the teacher ask to every group to explain a different skill.
They were the more interesting group for me because they explain a lot of interesting things I hadn't got idea. There are the main ideas I extract for their explication:
-TIPS FOR TEACHERS: For example, promoting positive independence, talking about group problems, being creative, preparing funny activities for children...
-CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS: Trough cooperative learning work groups improve critical thinking skills because it employs discussion and reflection.
-STRESS: This group explain one method to reduce the stress in the class and the work groups because we should create in class a good environment to work and to stay during the classes. It's important for children because they are in a constant developmental process and we should make it easy.
The idea I can give to this group is to explain more about critical thinking because it's very interesting for our future as teachers and other groups didn't talk about it.
To finish, their activity was very funny: we were in a circle with our eyes closed and one person of their team brings to us a sticker with a color and then, when all of us were prepared we open our eyes and without speaking we have to find the persons who have our same color and to form a team with them.
WANDERLUST:
SARA MORA, BELÉN AND MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ.
The best idea to do the exposition: A VIDEO! They created some videos with the explication of different work groups (base, expertise and sporadic groups) and then they did a complete video formed by the little videos. It was easy to follow and funny because the most of videos was examples of this groups and not only the theory. It was a great job and it is hard too because doing this things you spend a lot of time.
The content was exactly the same as the other groups but I think the most flashy thing of this video is the way to extract the information to do a comedy with it and not a presentation o a poster. It's a good way to explain something and to make it clear.
In their activity we had to discuss a conclusion of cooperative learning, in groups. This was very productive because every group said one different thing and we made a good conclusion all together.
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