The practice of grouping in the classroom can be traced to __________________ by ___________________.
What is 1867 by W.T. Harris?
100
It is a sense of sink or swim together.
What is positive interdependence?
100
Type of group that are temporary groups that last only a few minutes or a class period. This type of grouping can be used to summarize a lecture, clarify assignments or expectations. An example would be _____________________.
What is an informal group? Example - pairing students to share or to turn to their neighbors to check for understanding of an assignment or topic discussed.
100
_______________ must individually demonstrate mastery of important skills or concepts of learning.
What is student?
200
The grouping method used in Santa Barbara Plan had each grade level divided by A B C with each representing __________________________________.
What is A group was the smart group, B group needed a little more help and C group needed a lot more help than the other two.
200
This element states that students help each other learn. They applaude success and efforts.
What is face-to-face promotive interaction?
200
Groups that last for a longer period of time (several days or weeks) are called __________________________. This type of grouping is formed to ensure that students have enough time to thoroughly complete an academic assignment. An example _________________________.
What are formal long term groups / project groups?
Example - Assigning students to work on a weekly project.
200
Groups are _________________ for success. Give examples.
What is rewarded. Verbal praise from the teacher or recognition in the newslette or on a bulletin board.
300
It is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a standard. Each member of the team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn.
What is cooperative learning?
300
The students have a sense that each of them has to contribute to the group achieving its goals.
What is individual and group accountability?
300
Groups that are designed to last for an entire semester or year are ________________________. The group is designed to provide students with support for the semester or school year. An example is ________________________.
What is a base group?
Example - LMU cohort.
300
The teacher must ______________________, __________________, and ______________________.
What is develop expectations, monitors student interactions, presents initial material as appropriate.
400
______________________ should be done sparingly because students of students of low ability perform worse when they are group with like students.
What is organizing groups based on ability levels?
400
The group has strong communication, trust, leadership, decision making abilities, and conflict resolution.
What is interpersonal and small group skills?
400
The main reason for not using large teams is ______________.
What is students may not have the skills to work competently in a large group.
400
Students are _______________ to groups. They don't pick the group themselves.
What is assigned?
500
Groups should be ________________ and applied _________________________ because groups of 3 or 4 are more effective and if used too often lose their efficiency.
What is small in size and consistently and systematically?
500
The group reflects on how well the team is functioning and how to function even better.
What is group processing?
500
Students don't always learn best in groups because _____________________
What is they sometimes need time to think independently and not depend on others to do all their thinking.
500
The ______________________ is arranged to facilitate group interaction.