Elementary Education
Case Study
You engage your third grade students in cooperative learning
activities at least twice a day, changing heterogeneous group members once
every four weeks. You have agreed upon routine procedures that your classroom
community uses within their small groups, including the roles and
responsibilities of group members. Lately you have noticed that one small group
always seems to have difficulty grasping material and completing their project
in an acceptable manner. You observe
this group carefully and find that Lisa seems to be the catalyst for their
problems. She gets angry with others if
she does not get the job she wants and refuses to do her part in contributing
to the group’s learning. She constantly
interrupts others in her group. She does
not pay attention when her group prepares for class presentations.
When creating a continuum of responses for dealing with Katie's misbehavior, I would start out by evaluating her behavior and the ways that she has been acting up in her small group lately. I will pull her aside and speak with her to see what is causing her to act angry towards others and why she feels the need to interrupt others in her group. I will consider other factors that may be going on in her life outside of school and see if those things may have an impact on her attitude towards her group. If that does not work and she doesn't discuss with me why she is acting the way that she is, and if she tells me that nothing different is going on at home; I will try putting her with another group. This will allow me to see how she works with them and will help me to determine if it was just that one group she was in that was causing her to act out badly. Lastly, if those two things do not work, I will make a call home to her parents and see if they have any insight as to why Katie may be refusing to work with her group. I will plan a conference with them so that we can collaborate, working together, to see what Katie's needs are to help her succeed.
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