Pttls Unit 7

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Unit 07 Manage learning and development in groups (base add meat IT related) To help understand the principles and practices of managing learning and development in groups I will; - 1.1) Analyse the characteristics of group environments that foster the learning and development. To get the best out of the group of students I am teaching, I think it is beneficial to organise the group depending on individual; strengths, weaknesses and learning styles. I can get an idea of these characteristics by analysing their individual files and identifying possible barriers such as; language and lack of qualifications. I would mix different learning styles together as well as different types of character, for example I would have the more confident/talkative students with the quieter ones the aims is that it would encourage quieter students to participate with the class. Also if there were students whose first language wasn’t English, I would put them with the more knowledgeable/experienced students. I am aware that in practise group work could possibly cause the group to deteriorate to chaos, however it is possible to overcome this with by stopping the lesson and notifying the students that the lesson would resume once the chatter has died down and if it continued I would send the perpetrators out of the classroom. ICT is a complex subject and so there will be some students that understand and know more than others, so it would be beneficial to group students of different levels together to do the work so that the students can learn from each other. The students with less understanding of the subject are able to learn from stronger students as they are all working together in groups to complete the task. 1.2) Evaluate strategies to manage group behaviour and dynamics. To do this, I would firstly get my group to collectively set some class rules. I
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