Question

importance of group activity in school

Answer 1

As group work in schools has become more prominent in education, teachers are developing their curriculum by not only incorporating more group work but also focusing on it. Group work is important, it gives students the opportunity to learn from each other, teaches them communication skills and helps them develop interpersonal relationship skills.

However putting students into groups is not as easy as saying “Class! Please get into groups of four.” Even if this goes smoothly without anyone getting upset

These are some different ways of forming groups and when you might like to to use each method:

Student choice:

This is the “Class! Please get into groups of four” type of forming groups. This will be easy or hard depending on your class. The main problems are that students can get left out of their friend group or get no group at all.

Ability Based Groups:

This is a widely used method of putting students into groups, which involve grouping students with other students of similar abilities. Of course it depends on what the topic is, if it’s chance and data you group the students with an advanced knowledge together (who can workout the chance of a die landing on a 6 then a 3 then a 4, in that order)