Interactive groups

In the classroom, heterogeneous groupings of students in terms of learning level, gender, culture, etc. are made. Each group carries out a specific activity for a short period of time while an adult (volunteer, family member, another teacher or professional from another field) supervises the group, ensuring that they work on the activity and that peer learning takes place. Their role is to promote interaction in the group.

As they are heterogeneous groups, there are always students who finish the activity first, so the person tutoring the group ensures that they help their peers, generating dialogue and interactions that accelerate the learning of all students and not just those who are lagging behind.

Usually (it is not essential), after a time previously determined by the teacher (15 or 20 minutes, depending on the time foreseen for each activity), each group gets up from the table and sits at another table, changing activities and tutors, so that, at the end of the session, they have been able to carry out four or five different activities on a specific topic being worked on in that session.

How they are organised:

  1. In the classroom, heterogeneous groupings are made up in terms of learning level, gender, culture, etc. of male and female students. 
  2. Each group carries out a specific activity for a short period of time while an adult (volunteer, family member, another teacher or professional from another field) tutors the group, ensuring that they work on the activity and that peer learning takes place. As they are heterogeneous groups, there are always students who finish the activity first, so the person tutoring the group (volunteer) ensures that they help their classmates, generating a dialogue and interactions that accelerate the learning of all students and not only those who are behind. 
  3. After a time previously determined by the teacher (15 or 20 minutes, depending on the time foreseen for each activity), each group gets up from the table and sits at another table, changing activities and tutors so that, at the end of the session, they have been able to carry out 4 or 5 different activities on a specific topic that is being worked on in that session.

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