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** Chumash Grouping In Fifth Grade: ** One of the issues with grouping is that one person tends to do the work and everyone else copies from them. Therefore one suggestion is that each member of the group needs to have a job and be responsible for something. Today I put on the board a number of steps that each group had to do, the list was the same for all the groups. Then I divided them into mixed groups (some strong students with some weak ones). I said each member of the group had to have a job. The jobs for today’s lesson were; reader, translator, recorder, and speaker. For today’s activity I didn’t assign the jobs but in the future I may since it caused some problems. Having a job kept the students more on task and therefore gave me the ability to walk around and help each group. This type of grouping can be done without an assistant. It taught the students how to work together and gave them each a certain amount of responsibility. There were some challenges and therefore I would make some changes next time but the overall feedback afterwards was positive.











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