Heterogeneous Groups In The Classroom

In the video the teacher Sheryl cebula divides her class room up into heterogeneous groups. They are all working on Caribbean theme projects music, foods, flags, and etc. The pros of this are that the kids are grouped with special interested. For example, there is a boy with special needs that loves music so he is put into the music group. The lower level kids are pair with the higher level children and with that they have equal groups.
The cons is some kids don’t have the tolerance for other kids behaviors. And they don’t know have to not keep their own personal space and other don’t know how to deal with them. The teachers in the video used many strategies in order to ensure that all the students participated in their group work. She had
special check off paper assigned to each child to fill out. She also paired special need kids with regular children to help each other out hand and hand. Along with the second teacher keeping an eye out for the special need children. Also when she does her lesson plan she breaks down the lesson for the children. She does this so she can addressee the different learning styles. She give the kids and audio, visual, and hand on approach.