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How will I determine
grouping for my students?
Size of groups:
Determines how many students will need access to the computer and then this dictates how many
rotations on the computers you will need.
When sizing
groups think about is important to have everyone to access the comptuers?
Is important
for individiuals to have individual time to pratctic and explore?
It is okay to
have some groups of 2, some of 3, and some of 4. I place numbers in groups when students have the teamwork skills necessary for larger groups.
Forming Groups
How do you place students with each other? Think about the following:
Who hasn’t
been paired with who yet? I try to have all my students work with everyone throughout the year.
Technology Skills needed for the project
Placing
technology skilled kids together. This allows the non-skilled students a chance to develop their own
skills as they can’t sit back and wait for someone to take control
Reading Levels
Place readers with non reader
Lower readers with a close reader
one level up from them
High readers with High readers
Leaders
Ofen it is good to place the leader kid with other leaders - they learn a lot more about teamwork. A
Potenial leader paired with the helper student creates a nice working relationship
Helpers
Place helpers with the difficult students but make note of this so that the helpers
also on the next project aren’t stuck again with those students
Difficult Students
Don’t be afraid to have the difficult students work on their
own
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