| TEACHER-LED GROUPS |
| Grouping Options | Teacher's Role | Activities |
Whole Class/
Small Groups | - Explains procedures
- Provides instructional scaffold
- Faciliates discussion
- Provides explicit instruction
- Affirms student diversity
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- Outlining day's agenda/schedule
- Giving an overview of concepts
- Sharing student work
- Presenting strategies
- Developing background knowledge
|
| Individual |
- Guides individual development
- Encourages individual student interests
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- Applying key concepts, strategies and skills
- Composing written responses
- Completing understanding
- Creating own investigations
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| STUDENT-LED GROUPS |
| Collaborative |
- Describes students' roles
- Describes students' interpersonal skills
- Encourages student interaction
- Monitors group effectiveness
- Guides understanding
- Affirms student diversity
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- Organizing collaborative project
- Collaborating on projects
- Sharing group projects
- Discussing students' evaluation of group's success
- Applying key strategies and concepts
- Discussing different perspectives
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| Performance-Based |
- Identifies students' needs
- Provides instructional scaffold
- Provides explicit instruction
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- Organizing short-term groups
- Introducing new concepts
- Teaching sppecific concepts, strategies and skills
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| Dyad (Pairs) |
- Identifies students' interests or needs
- Models instructional strategies
- Guides understanding
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- Assisting partners
- Tutoring peers
- Responding to peer writing
- Collaborating
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