I’m looking at how work groups are assigned as a subdivision of an entire class. Here are the five ways I’ve come up with some far, can you think of any others that are relatively standard? Please add your thoughts to the comments section here.
- random – the teacher arbitrarily assigns the groups, there is no specific order or method.
- self-assign – student pick their own group members.
- proximity – the teach clumps students based on where they are sitting – “you five sitting (next near each other) are one group, you five…” etc…
- Count off – students count off…all the ones go to this corner, all the twos over there, etc…
- Course list – this is done alphabetically based on the course list.
- Progress – student who are doing well / students who are not doing well.