| Series |
Education in video
Education in video. ^A1165896
|
| Abstract |
Four DT teachers at Queens Park Community School in north London, adopt a range of group work strategies. In this programme, they watch a video of their group work sessions and discuss its implications.They agree on the exercise's usefulness and express surprise at how readily their pupils took to working in groups. They debate some interesting challenges, including the role of the teacher, when to intervene and when to leave pupils alone and how best to organise the groups.A common observation is that group work suits particular children well, especially those who are often not engaged in more traditional activities. All four reflect on the interplay between more and less able pupils, and how their expectations as teachers were sometimes dramatically challenged.KS3 Strategy consultant Gareth Stevens, from Harrow LEA, shares their observations, and encourages them to use see group work techniques as having a relevance in all sorts of lessons. |
| Abstract |
This programme focuses on the use of group work in the classroom. It examines this technique as a useful means of encouraging creativity, sharing ideas and collaboration.The programme is based on the experiences of four teachers from Queens Park Community School in north London, a typical inner-city comprehensive. Jayne Downs uses Snowballing in Year 7 Food Technology - arranging children into ever expanding groups to evaluate aspects of a range of fruit juices. Head of Department Aubrey Muchamore, who readily confesses to never having used the techniques in all my years of teaching , begins a module to design and build an A6 paper dispenser, using groups to evaluate the work of an earlier group, and in Graphics and Structures, Srdjan Vasic forms Year 9 into groups to build a load bearing bridge from plastic straws and masking tape. |
| General note | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Other forms | Previously released as DVD. |
| Language | This edition in English. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction television programs. |
| Genre/form | Instructional television programs. |
