OER4Schools/Taster materials UNISA/Role of the teacher in group work
These clips show Eness, a teacher in a community school near Lusaka, interacting with a Grade 3 class. The children are devising their own classifications of animals depicted in photographs on tablet computers, and recording their ideas on mini-blackboards. There is one clip of pupils working alone, then one with the teacher present.
Stimulus (11 min). See videos: Eness_vertebrates_6.mp4 (2 mins. 38), Eness_vertebrates_7.mp4 (3 mins. 45).
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Mini-blackboards group work
Groupwork using mini-blackboards: group of 5 recording under their own category of ‘animals with no legs’ and interacting as a group
Video/Eness vertebrates 6.mp4, https://oer.opendeved.net/wiki/Video/Eness_vertebrates_6.mp4,This video is available on your memory stick in the video/Eness Vertebrates folder. Duration: 3:43 watch on YouTube, local play / download options / download from dropbox)(Series: Eness Vertebrates, episode 06)(Transcript available here or via YouTube captions.)
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Teacher interaction
Teacher interacts with group
Video/Eness vertebrates 7.mp4, https://oer.opendeved.net/wiki/Video/Eness_vertebrates_7.mp4,This video is available on your memory stick in the video/Eness Vertebrates folder. Duration: 3:46 watch on YouTube, local play / download options / download from dropbox)(Series: Eness Vertebrates, episode 07)
Whole group discussion (11 min).
- What was the teacher able to achieve in this small group work that would be difficult in the whole class?
- What is the role of the teacher during group work in these clips?
- How did the teacher involve all pupils in the discussion?
