Cooperative Learning

The third type of lesson my group and I taught was cooperative learning. This is all about each person has a specific task to all work together as a group to complete the entire task that is being asked. The way my class was taught to remember this was with an acronym of PIGS and then Face to face. This lesson the students had to work together to become a factory and create an ad. Each student was a manager and had the task of either writing the slogan, drawing, designing, creating the price, etc. The students seemed to love the creative element of this task. I did realize that assigning roles would be challenging to we let the students work together.
The students had the chance to present their ad with the class once everyone was finished and the teachers and I had the listening students guess what the factory was. They all seemed to really enjoy this element of the lesson.
My wish for the future is that as a class, we went over how to properly present and how to properly listen to a group presenting. The students, I noticed, got shy and turned away when present or spoke too quietly. While the listeners did their own work or their focus was not on the group presenting. If we had the chance to go back and had a little bit more time, I would have spoke about this.