group work

This week all the students were working on a group project about the levels of human interaction. The students were set in a group of 4 or 5 people. The students had to read a poster on a specific level. When they were finished, the students had to translate certain important information to Spanish. Also, the students using magazine clipping, they had to create their own poster. With this, the students had to present to class and explain what their level of human interaction was. The students in the audience had to take notes and compare each one to their own.
The students’ behavior was chaotic at the beginning. The teacher had the group members’ names set up. The difficulty was to keep them in that group. A technique that she used to keep them in check was to deduct point how a specific person. If that did not work, she deducted points of the whole group. When this occurred the students would calm down and resume their task at hand. This was an effective technique because a specific student did not want to be at fault for the group failure.
The group project is an exceptional way to teach a lesson because the students can hear other peoples opinion and compare it to ones own opinion. If the groups work smoothly, the project will have and educational value and it also shows that the students are mature enough to help each other out.