Chapter 4: Cooperation and Anti-Social Behavior
A section that caught my eye, and one that I sort of mentioned in my reading response 3, was learning how to cooperate amongst the anti-social behavior. This section really just discusses all of the negative aspects of what can go wrong in groupwork. It talks about how the students will make fun of each other or not listen and call out one another for bad ideas. The best way around this is to teach the students proper communication skills. I can tell you right now that the new problems this poses for me as a teacher is the thought of actually teaching them something outside my content area. I must teach these kids manners. Most of the examples from the book talk about Middle school students, but these qualities follow the students to high school. Now, on top of English, I must learn how to become a parent and teach these kids things that should have been done years ago by the people closest to them. These groupwork problems are ones that I am aware of, but ones that will be awesome when they are done right.
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Manners, and much else. I am glad you are beginning (?) to embrace my argument that you are teaching children first, and you are then teaching children literacy, and then the particular content of "English" as your school, state, etc. define it.
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