Working in pairs and groups

How listening to each other can develop our own learning/ goals

Whole School Literacy Tutor WorkWeek 2: Reciprocity

Reciprocity – what does this mean to you?

Showing respect

Listening to someone

Making time for another person

Responding to a person

What makes group work effective?

Using the grid, colour code to decide:

Which are most important for group work = green

Which are quite important for group work = yellow

Red = must not do.

Quick discussion

What groups of people in society NEED to work

together to achieve their goals/ aims?

Discuss the following images

Self audit

On a scale of 1-5 (1=low, 5=high) come up with a number for the following:-

Do I work well in a group?

Am I always doing what I have been asked when I am doing group work?

Can I listen to someone telling me something without interrupting them?

Can I respond to other people’s opinions in a constructive way?

Does everybody’s opinion count?

Discuss the meaning of the following quotation

“Crowds tend to be wise only if individual members act responsibility and make their own decisions. A group won’t be

smart if its members imitate one another, slavishly follow fads or wait for

someone to tell them what to do.”

Why can working in groups and discussing ideas in groups be a really good way of

learning?

I CAN listen well!

In pairs, take it in turns, one of you will describe the image, the other has their back to the screen and will sketch what it looks like

After one minute show your sketchHow helpful were the descriptions?

How well did you listen?

Now it’s your turn…

Person A describes...

Person B describes…

Listening to each other: showing reciprocity

How well did you listen today?To your tutor?

To your partner?