Here’s a question for you! How often do you incorporate partner activities into your teaching plans and what do you like best (or least) about these activities?
Was that two questions? 🙂
Thanks for your input!
Diane
Here’s a question for you! How often do you incorporate partner activities into your teaching plans and what do you like best (or least) about these activities?
Was that two questions? 🙂
Thanks for your input!
Diane
I have students do “partner reading” with students who are at the same F & P level. It is a station during Reader’s Workshop. They love it..but it takes a lot of practice to get them to understand “whisper reading” and only reading, since I teach first grade.
I don’t do partner activities in Prek but I do have children help each other with projects. Through the years I have found that sometimes a child can help another child get a concept better than adult instruction.
Just like Darlene, I teach pre-k and do not do partner activities at that grade level.
Students do help each other to learn, though. I agree that a child can often help another learn better than an adult sometimes. 🙂
I group my students in pairs and rotate them through stations. This way I can work with just those two who don’t understand yet a specific concept I’ve been teaching, and with those two who are way above the others. The the noise level is easy to manage with the kids in such small groups,.