Group Work Assignment Analysis

If I were a high school teacher planning a group work assignment, I would assign random grouping to maximize student achievement. Although students that compose the groups are randomly selected, I will allow some tweaking to ensure that my fast learners are distributed in all groups. This will ensure that slow learners are equally helped when needed. My idea can be best described as heterogeneous grouping, not homogenous, grouping if my purpose is to maximize student achievement, both academically and socially. If my goals are acceleration and extensive intervention, then I would use homogenous grouping by ability. Anyways, I am aware that random grouping or heterogeneous grouping is not effective if I do not use it with fidelity and if I do not understand who my students are. Tomlinson (2014) …show more content…
Teenagers lose motivation when they are compared as less performing with others. This is not academically and socially healthy as this will only help students conclude that they are second-rate and will discourage them to further discover and use their other potentials and strengths. No matter how diverse our students are, they all have their own strengths that, even at adolescence stage, may remain hidden and need to be discovered. Another reason why I am for random grouping or heterogeneous grouping is so that my teenage students will have the opportunity to mingle and work with classmates who are not necessarily their friends. This is training them to socialize and work with people who are strange to them, because this is the kind of environment they will live in the future. This is improving their interpersonal skills, which are their best asset to survive and be successful in their future