Second day of cooperative learning (Lucía)

The second day of presentations we saw three groups: The different, La Banda del Patio and Rigatoni’s Angels.

With their works we talked again about advantages and disadvantages of cooperative learning. We learnt that there are no disadvantages and difficulties, there are some reason which we have to teach children how to work in this way and all its benefits.

Another main point that they talked about was the rules in the classroom. It is so important to have them in a class, all the children have to realize that they have the same rights and they have to respect each other to work in a better way.

It is important too the way we organize to do our works, it is necessary to have some methods of meeting, doing it in person or by the media, for example with Skype. If we don’t meet we lost the meaning of cooperative learning, because although we have some roles in a work, I think that it is necessary to elaborate the work all together, because the goal is that all the members could understand and learn all the contents. I think that this is the philoshopy of collaborative work, to be able of be equal despite we were different or have some academic levels.

One of the methods of working in groups that they explained so well was the Jigsaw method. They put us a video of a stop motion which we could see some different groups represented with Haribo bears in a class by colors, they splitted to make the “expert groups” and transmit the information to their main teams.

Finally another thing that was interesting was the way of making base teams in class with the three method column. Although we had this information in our own presentation, it was helpful to see another point of view in other presentations of our classmates, because this method is very important to make children feel comfortable in class and to be efficient.