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EDUC - 221 Study Guide - May 21

The document provides guidance on facilitating group learning and teaching journal writing. It discusses: 1) The roles of a facilitator in group learning include designing effective tasks, monitoring activities, and assessing students. Ensuring diverse groups work well together requires understanding dynamics and supporting students. 2) When teaching journal writing, encourage creative self-expression, incorporate drawings/diagrams, and have students write regularly to embrace it as a spontaneous activity. 3) Cooperative learning involves students working together on common goals. It allows applying knowledge in work-like environments and developing skills through flexible strategies.

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EDUC - 221 Study Guide - May 21

The document provides guidance on facilitating group learning and teaching journal writing. It discusses: 1) The roles of a facilitator in group learning include designing effective tasks, monitoring activities, and assessing students. Ensuring diverse groups work well together requires understanding dynamics and supporting students. 2) When teaching journal writing, encourage creative self-expression, incorporate drawings/diagrams, and have students write regularly to embrace it as a spontaneous activity. 3) Cooperative learning involves students working together on common goals. It allows applying knowledge in work-like environments and developing skills through flexible strategies.

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Study Guide:

1. How do you facilitate group-based learning?


Effective group learning requires serious commitment and understanding by the
teacher and quality engagement by the students themselves. So, I will definitely get the
people to work together well and I will carefully set up learning environments. Through the
use of cooperative learning, students will work together to complete a common learning
goal. This method allows them to apply knowledge in an environment that is similar to
their future work life. Or maybe because I have some experienced being a facilitator in
group learning before with my friends, I can use discussion methods that are often used by
teachers and students to discuss ideas and develop mutual respect.
Ensuring successful group learning practice means being aware of the complexities of
group work and the diversity of the students that I am teaching. As their facilitator, I will
have several roles as students engage in group learning activities and it will be my
responsibility to oversee the process, facilitating and managing some of the stages. The first
role relates to the design of the group learning task or activities. It is important to ensure
that the task relates to and supports the learning outcomes of my unit. The second role
involves monitoring the group learning activities and intervening to support students if
needed. And I must ensure that groups are an emotionally safe place in which to learn. The
final role involves assessment.

2. How do you teach students to write journals?


Journals are often used for classroom writing assignments, and I will come up with a
variety of prompts and purposes for journal entries. The first one is, have students write
for themselves. Choose an audience of one. When they know they’re not writing for others
to read, students can be bold and creative, and the freedom of the process can result in
some exceptional writing. Let them choose the topics, the length, the style, and the
approach. Treat it less like an assignment and more like a tool used to tap into creativity
and curiosity. Sketch notes, unanswered questions, and bulleted lists all have their place in
journaling. Second is, I will let the students use the space for doodling, drawing,
diagramming, and informal writing. They might sketch diagrams or images of scientific
concepts, or incorporate elements of interactive notebooks by having students cut out
items and tape them in. And lastly, I will give the students time to write regularly. I will
have them write daily and the process doesn’t need to be difficult. But the journal writing
doesn’t need to be limited to a formal, designated time. I will encourage them to carry their
notebook and jot down ideas as they happen. The goal is to have them embrace writing as a
spontaneous activity. I will make sure to encourage students to think of their journal as a
playground.
3. What is cooperative learning and how does it work?
Cooperative learning is a method utilized by teachers to enable their students to
accomplish a common goal. Cooperative learning strategies allow students to apply
knowledge in a more similar environment to their future work life. Through these
activities, teachers can develop and implement strategies that help students develop their
core competencies and soft skills. Cooperative learning strategies are flexible structures
that can be used in different school contexts.

4. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of team-teaching method.


There’s a lot of advantages that team-teaching method have. It provides benefits for
faculty like, learn about teaching, improve their own teaching skills, have opportunities to
socialize graduate students into the world of teaching, step out of their comfort zone, have
opportunities for creative assignments, become informed and encouraged in
interdisciplinary research, see teaching through the learners’ eyes, avoid the lonely,
repetitive, fragmented experience of solo teaching, gain new insights into their disciplines
and many more. Team- teaching method provides benefits for students too. It deepens
students’ analytical abilities, help to build bridges of understanding across disciplines for
both faculty and students, build greater curricular coherence for students, create a greater
sense of academic community, provide explicit structures for academic and social
engagement (this is particularly necessary at commuter campuses), improve student-
teacher relationships, make classes more interesting and challenging because of the
novelty and improve student learning outcomes, retention rates, interpersonal skills,
communication skills, analysis and judgment, and diversity.
For the disadvantages of team-teaching method, it can have a communication
misunderstanding, inequitable contributions by individuals and an imbalance of workload,
lack of leadership, motivation of participants and cultural differences and expectations.

5. How demonstration method is useful in teaching?


Discussion methods are often used by teachers and students to discuss ideas and
develop mutual respect. It is a variety of forums for open-ended, collaborative exchange of
ideas among a teacher and students or among students for the purpose of furthering
students thinking, learning, problem solving, understanding, or literary appreciation.

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