Task 10-2-07.

Classroom Management

Most pastoral care happens in good classrooms with good lessons (if there is a massive detention system then perhaps the classrooms/lessons are not up to scratch)

One technique: The JIGSAW model see: http://jigsaw.org/

1. Form into small groups (six is a good size) - breaking up normal grouping (eg by numbering 1,2,3... and then getting all '1's together etc

2. Allocate a common (meaningful) task to the whole class (eg 'what is a good lesson')

3. Each student in each group is given a task/topic

(eg task1: Gagne's events of instruction, task2: Merrill's first principles of instruction, task3: Specifying intentions for a lesson - Ausubel, task4: Taxonomies - Bloom, SOLO, task5: Objectives using Gronlund's approach, task6: Catering for diversity - Gardner)

4. Each student does their own research - gathers information for 20 - 30 minutes (or a week - topic dependent)

5. 'Experts' (now) on each task/topic meet to discuss and study the topic further - each person becomes an expert.

6. Experts now return to their original groups and teach the other members about the Topic they have studied.

Giving responsibility to each member to go back and teach the team - the student does not want to look foolish, and will be trying hard to do a good job.
It would be good to use Technology so that all the information can be captured for the group.
Each group set up a new blog and put all the information they have gathered onto it.

(for us - use tech to capture the information - create a new blog, make all members authors of the blog.)