Group work means work done by a group of people working together, for example students in a classroom. From the definition ,it sounds very easy. But when it is put into practice, it is extremely challenging. I think there are several factors which have an influence on the effect.
First, it depends on students’ learning condition. If the students have a good ability to understand teacher’s instructions and , then it is a good way to help students foster their own logical ability, analysis ability and problem-solving ability. In the process, students can be exposed to diverse opinions, which will absolutely open their mind and make their ideas unlimited. And this will, of course, highly improve the class efficiency. Accordingly, group work in this kind of class also requires a higher condition for teachers. The teachers should have the ability to come up with some profound questions which can lead students to find out the solutions step by step,and little by little, and consequently, the students can get their own insight into these questions.
However, as a teacher,we can not ignore another situation, where the students know very little about what teachers are talking about. If teachers ask these students to have a discussion or group work, there is no dying that it is a waste of time. Under these circumstances, teachers had better keep the class to themselves.
As a teacher, we should be aware of the strengths of it and maximize them,also minimize the weaknesses to make it better to improve the class efficiency. And in the teaching practice, we are also supposed to be flexible to use it. That means, we should totally have a better understanding of our students so that we could decide whether to use it as a method or not. What’s more, what we will teach in the class is also a vital factor er should take into consideration. In addition, we teachers should develop our own management ability in case that the whole class gets into a mess. In conclusion , we must admit that group work is a fantastic form in a class.
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