How does it work?
Pupils work in groups of three. Each pupil take on role of talker, questioner, recorder. The talker explains something, or comments on an issue, or expresses an opinion. The questioner prompts and seeks clarification
The recorder makes notes and gives a report at the end of the conversation.
Next me, roles are changed.
ENVOYS
Purpose:
Active listening, public speaking
and clarity of exposition, sharing and creating interdependence
Set Up:
Pods around the room of groups 3-4
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How it works:
Once groups have carried out a task, one person from each group is selected as an ‘envoy’ and moves to a new group to explain and summarise, and to find out what the new group thought, decided or achieved. The envoy then returns to the original group and feeds back. This is an effective way of avoiding tedious and repetitive ‘reporting back’ sessions. It also puts a ‘press’ on the envoy’s use of language and creates groups of active listeners.
JIGSAWING
Purpose:
Structured way of dealing with a series of questions and promoting team work.
Set Up:
Pods around the room of groups 3‐4
How it works:
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The advantage of a ‘jigsaw’ is that it offers a structure for group work, and promotes a range of
speaking and listening.
The teacher divides the whole class into small groups (commonly four pupils per group).
These are teacher‐initiated in order to make each group reflect the balance of the whole class
– gender, ability, attitude.
Each Home Group is given a common task. Handouts are employed in order to set the task. Reading material is kept to a manageable length and complexity. If the home groups are of four, then there are four questions or tasks within the main task – one for each member of the group. Questions or tasks are allocated within each group, through negotiation between the pupils.
All the pupils who have selected a particular question or task regroup into Expert groups and work together on what is now a common problem and outcome. By the time this stage of the session is completed, each has become an expert on this matter, through discussion and collaboration with the other ‘experts’.
Original groups reform. Dissemination begins. The home groups are set a final task. This could be a group outcome, or an individual task. The crucial element is to ensure that pupils have to draw on the combined ‘wisdom’ of the home group in order to complete it successfully.
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