AN EXTRA PRESENTATION: GÏZEM

It is quite difficult reflect about a topic a lot of times, as we are doing during this two weeks. We have been talking about “Cooperative learning” doing referring to the presentations of my classmates. So, maybe in that reflection I am not so creative.

Gïzem did a presentation by her own. I suppose it was because her group did theirs when she was not in class yet.

She presented the same cooperative learning technique as the whole class did the jigsaw technique. After the presentation, we ask her why she had chosen that one and she said it was because it is very easy work with that one. The children learn from each other, it is not necessary the “theoretical class”, which is done for a teacher and children have to hear him or her. With that technique they move on, they talk with people, not only with their partners, also with a guide of the museum (I write that example because the Gïzem’s exercise has a visit of a museum).

I realize thanks of this presentation that if a teacher has an effort can design a class using this technique in any subject. What is it mean? Gïzem shown us a History class, which was focused in Hittites (an Indio-European population that settled in Anatolia from the VIII century to the XII century), so she did a big effort to transform a “bored class” in a very entertaining class, and I am very sure that children will learn more thing using that technique instead of see the same topic in a theoretical class.

Another point that I want to highlight is that after children do the final project, they have some different prizes for their work. For me, that it is very important. We are reward them for make a work. And every work has to be reward. It does not matter the quality, just only the fact that they do it.