Grouping students
by Maciel Vivas
1. The use of different groupings
1.1. First make a sense, decide the best task. Use the pairwork or group less often or make a successful demostration using groups.
2. Seating whole-group classes
2.1. Orderly rows
2.2. Circle and horseshoe
2.3. separate tables
2.4. Enamy corners
3. Creating groups
3.1. Consider the following points
3.1.1. Friendship
3.1.2. Streaming
3.1.3. Chance
3.1.4. Task
3.1.5. Changing
3.1.6. Gender and status
4. Procedures for pairwork or groupwork
4.1. Before
4.1.1. Engage-instruc-initiate
4.2. During
4.2.1. Monitor, intervene and take part in the work
4.3. After
4.3.1. Organize a feedback, give to Ssa chance to demostrate their piece of work
5. Troubleshooting
5.1. Keeping pur eyes for problems
5.1.1. Finishing first
5.1.1.1. Give to Ss an extra work while They are waiting
5.1.2. Akwwards
5.1.2.1. You should observate the development of groups and decide to separate those groups that are not working.