When students interact with each other during collaborative problem solving, it's an understood norm that each student will have a responsibility for contributing to the
discussions during the group work.
The PBL Starter Kit discusses ways to hold students
accountable during group work through preproject discussions and close monitoring by teachers.
Not exclusively for the classroom, students can also use
SoundNote during group work or discussion and while conducting interviews for assignments or research.
A Kindergarten teacher allowed students to pick their activity
during group work by moving their magnetized name, and students in an upper grades classroom were given their station rotation assignments on a PowerPoint slide projected on the board each day.
In «Teacher As Assessment Leader» (2009) I suggested that the teacher's role is to «make frequent environmental scans to collect formal evidence such as assessments, exams, or homework, and informal evidence such as the questions students may ask, their
comments during group work, or even their confused expressions» in order for a productive exchange of information between teacher and student as part of an ongoing, seamless assessment and instruction plan.
The student can practice all five numbers, and the teacher can then assign different numbers to different school and social situations: A 1 would be appropriate if the student asked a classmate to borrow a pencil while the rest of the class was engrossed in a writing task; a 3 would be appropriate for students
conversing during group work; a 5 would be appropriate on the playground.
For example, participants learned how to simply but effectively depict probabilistic forecasts in graphs to
farmers during a group work discussion.
Well, I am a team player so my greatest strength in school was
during group work in Psychology there is so many group projects I feel like every class had two or three group projects and so I was really good at those... am good at working with people and my groups are always really good... i've seen some other groups like crash and burn but it never happened to me though.
During group work you will quickly realise that you might have different opinions about how to solve a problem.
During group work, class activities, and class assignments, students are allowed to talk quietly as long as they get their work completed.
Add to this mix, the everyday informal assessments that happen during Do Nows and Exit Tickets,
during our group work and our guided practice, and in their homework (which I assess for thoughtful completion, and we go over on the board as a discussion starter and a forum for note - taking).