Organising students to work in groups offers them opportunities to build on one another’s ideas and develop their understanding. Groupwork allows teachers to observe and monitor students. These videos show some of the ways that teachers can organise students in groups for different activities.
You may also want to read the Key Resource ‘Using groupwork’.
A teacher manages group-based activities in a multigrade, multilingual context.
A teacher uses groupwork in a discussion-based activity.
A teacher has arranged her students into four groups in which members decide who will take responsibility for different aspects of the activity.
A teacher prepares his students for a group-based discussion.
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