Group WorkThe conditions under which collaboration helps, and the default under which it does not.EducationCooperative learning works with structure. Unstructured group work usuallydoes not.Needed for it to workA task that genuinely needs more than one personIndividual accountability for a visible partGroup members who have the prior knowledgeExplicit teaching of how to work togetherClear roles agreed before the task startsCommon failure modesOne pupil does the work, five watchDiscussion of the task rather than the contentThe strongest pupil dictates the answerSocial loafing when only the group is assessedGroups too large for everyone to contributeCooperative learning with individual accountability has reasonableevidence behind it. Group work without it has very little.Group Worklearnposters.com
Group Work — printable humanities wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Group Work poster

10 entries in 2 groups.

Cooperative learning works with structure. Unstructured group work usually does not.

Cooperative learning with individual accountability has reasonable evidence behind it. Group work without it has very little.

Questions about the Group Work poster

What’s on the Group Work poster?
10 entries in 2 groups. Cooperative learning works with structure. Unstructured group work usually does not. Needed for it to work: A task that genuinely needs more than one person, Individual a…; Common failure modes: One pupil does the work, five watch, Discussion of the task rat…. Cooperative learning with individual accountability has reasonable evidence behind it. Group work without it has very little.
Who is the Group Work poster for?
Group Work belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning classroom practice can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Group Work poster?
Use it before setting a group task because the topic seems suited to discussion. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Group Work belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Group Work?
A Behaviour System, Checking Understanding and Cutting Load In A Lesson sit alongside Group Work in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.A Behaviour SystemChecking UnderstandingCutting Load In A Lesson
Is the Group Work poster free to download and print?
Yes. Group Work downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Group Work poster print at?
Group Work is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Group Work loses nothing.Printing guide

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