5th WEEK: TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

Assessing effort in a cooperative group setting is now easier than ever thanks to web 2.0 tools to help create the right rubrics. It is important to first state the lesson objective and form the groups (make sure to assign roles: encourager, recorder, summarizer, reporter, etc). Next, you the teacher must explain the task in clear, easy to understand directions. During the monitoring of group work, it is time to assess using the rubric. It is important that members are actually performing the roles assigned to them in order to assess correctly. At the end, groups should be given a chance to discuss their experiences working together as a group. This should take some time because the students need to discuss and verbalize their experiences in order to learn from them.