Group Work Roles Posters

I use groups as a means to differentiate. The captain/ facilitator is my high performer, the middle is like the laboratory who reviews the notes or vocabulary, and the lower student is the person who,states what the question is asking. I randomly form groups of three. I like it, but I struggle to keep the kids accountable to the roles. Any ideas how to do that?

I had used roles when I taught developmental reading/writing classes but never have created them for my math classes. Thank you for sharing!

I've been thinking lately about how I want to use roles in my groups. This is definitely helpful. I used the notebook software to random pick students to call on and it would put them in groups (I just told it the size). But I usually put them in groups, so good luck with the randomizing.

Thank you for sharing this!! I oftentimes let students assign their own roles within groups, but I like how this can randomize the group roles. In regards to assigning random groups, something that I like to do (and my students respond well to) is assigning groups based on random things such as birthdays, clothing color/style, shoe size, shoe or shoestring color, or whatever you so choose. I have used this technique in a couple of my evaluations and got higher scores because of it. So, feel free to use that idea. :) If you have any questions about it, feel free to email me. I got it from my math methods professor. Best of luck on grouping. Once you get the hang of it, it actually can be quite fun!

Kagan has an awesome cooperative learning training and will completely change the way you approach groupwork. If you ever get the opportunity to attend their training, it is worth it. My district brought them inn for a day of training last year and is bringing them back for another day next week. It is awesome stuff. They do not use roles, but rather different structures to enhance cooperative learning.