Nt1330 Unit 1 Assignment

With regards to classroom organization, I am a bit uncertain. As a student, I did not like having assigned seating – I liked to sit with my friends. However, I can understand the value in assigned seating for certain purposes, especially if students tend to be rowdier when they are with their friends than when they are separated. I might try out both methods and choose which one works best – and this might be different for each class. To start each term, I might assign seating to better enable myself to learn students’ names, but once that task is accomplished I may allow them to sit where they choose. I do believe it is important for students to work with people whom they may be less familiar with, however, and therefore I may facilitate groupings for projects done in class more often.

There is a great app that can be downloaded and used, called TeamShake, that allows instructors to create random groups. You simply enter the names of all your students into the app, select the number of groups or number of people per group you wish to have, ‘shake’ your phone, and the groups are created at random. There is a great feature to this app in that you can put certain students to never be paired together or to always be paired together; in this way, you can still appear to have random groups, but you’ve done a little tweaking to ensure that the groups work the way you want them to. This is a great tool to use in a classroom setting in which group work is something that tends to be utilized a lot – this works well in both English and Social Studies classrooms, which I will be teaching. Creating groups can be time consuming but this app can reduce the time wasted and allow for more time engaged in