Inspired by the Jigsaw Approach Presented by Miss Wang

For teachers, it is essential to set a structure in groups in order to allow students to bring their abilities to the group effort. This type of learning helps to link findings of a special topic together, helping students to discover that working in groups brings about higher effectiveness especially for practical plans.

Teacher conducts group conference with the finished group to clarify and extend their learning. As teacher ask questions that provides with evidence of students’ understanding and explore their way of thinking. Teacher asks various questions to each students such as What obstacles did you overcome to resolve this task? what the hardest fraction you encountered? What strategy did you use? How your strategy relates to your classmates’

For this assessment students are allowed to work in small teams to gather information. However the

The conditions for this group assignment were different however, all of my previous collaborative works were either presentations or assessment where task could be easily split and completed individually. This assessment piece forced greater importance on group discussion and bonding, as all parts had to flow while projecting the same or similar message.

Despite this, the disparity in responses of “some” between the two instructional styles indicates that, while lecture may be the dominant type of teaching style, group work still plays a major role in a significant part of student’s classes.

There will be four people in each group and each person will have a job, there will be a leader, speaker, reader, and notetaker. After modeling each role, I will allow the students to create groups with four people in each group. At each table will be a discussion question or a project set up for each group. Once students are in groups, I will have the students decide who will be in each role. I will then have the students begin reading the group discussion question or begin the group project. As the students are working I will be walking around and encouraging the students to dig deeper to explore a concept. By teaching the students how to work together in groups with the different roles will ensure that each group member is evenly contributing to the group and teaching the students important skills for working collaboratively for the future.

The effectiveness of our group collaboration was mixed regarding this particular project. While two of us in the group have vast experience in group projects in addition to course work in general, this was the first course for one of the participants. This created slight tension

Groups are expected to share their thoughts and are expected to work together the analysis sheets in class.

All of the group members including myself were able to discuss their difficulties in finding the information for their questions and were able to help each other out if needed. Also, the group organised a meeting time for our group task during our breaks. During the class time together, through viber and meetings in our breaks we were able to discuss and put ideas in our tasks. Also asking the teacher about the questions that I didn't understanding and if I was doing it right or not was very helpful in getting this group task. This, therefore, leads us all to head to the right direction. However, time management was an issue for all the members in our group as we all had different commitments. I recommend that time management should be managed well when it comes to group task in order to achieve a successful goal. As time management is very important for an individual's life and career success. Time management teaches everyone about how we can manage our time effectively and make it useful for our own benefit Sasson and Macan (1990). As our members may have felt like they had a lot to do and didn't have that much time to do the task which leads to over stressing. This, therefore, had permitted us to lack behind the task. This was one of the main issues within our group task which I believe we should have discussed how we could have managed our time and substituted the

The students enjoy having the opportunity to work in small groups, both independently and with the teacher’s support. When they are working in independent groups, they collaborate and help each other. They work as a team. When they are working with the teacher, they feel they can perform the assigned task

Students will participate in discussions with their group to answer the lesson questions to develop key understanding

Sometimes, individual assignments might take a long time to finish, or else, students will have an overwhelming amount of homework. Group assignments can make a

Group work is identified as a key factor on the assignment task sheet, however this is not followed through on the criteria sheet – proving otherwise unreliable. If the teamwork is considered with some groups, the marks are unjustifiable. As mentioned above, the weighting of each Part on the

Group work was one of the strategies used to assess students. The purpose of group work is for students to build social skills. The weakness I observed with group work is that some members don’t take group work seriously and the bulk of the work is placed on one individual. For participating in the course one was required to discuss different topics weekly with peers. This procedure enlightened me to new strategies that I wasn’t privy to due to the level I teach. However, I felt at times that the discussions was not edifying but complimenting peers. Furthermore, the coordinator scaffold our learning during the discussions by reviewing our posts and providing feedback where

The learning experience in a group was much effective in a way that the tasks were divided among four of us. The task was divided in a way that each one of us were responsible for the research of required information. Research was divided into statistic, case study, sign and symptoms, risk factors and prevention majors. All five of us picked one topic per member for research. My role in the team was to find the supporting information regarding symptoms. Nevertheless, we worked in a team to find all the required information needed to support our presentation.