Co-teaching experience
In this section, I am going to describe the co-teaching activity we carried out as well as make a report
on the implementation of it.
"Who is the murderer?"
The main objective of our co-teaching activity was to get students practice the use of questions in the past simple form, using the auxiliary verb “Do/Did” and “W” questions.
In order to offer learners an enriching experience where they could have fun while learning and using English, we decided to organise a game-based activity with a straightforward problem-solving focus, which simultaneously gave us the chance of reinforcing other cognitive skills. The activity was based on the famous game Cluedo, which we called “Who is the murderer of the crime?”.
Therefore, in this activity, learners were asked to put themselves in the shoes of different characters (the suspects) to ask and answer a wide range of questions to other classmates to find out who was the murderer of the victim. Some of the skills and abilities students had to put in practice during this activity were: posing hypotheses, selecting appropriate information, making connections with the data gathered, discarding possibilities and finally, reaching to the problem solution.
The dynamic of the activity consisted in having the whole class split up in two groups of approximately 12 students sitting in a roundtable with a chair in the middle: the “hot seat”. Each pupil (or pair of pupils, depending on the school) was given a card with a suspect where he/she could find a brief description of the suspect’s actions at the time of the crime (where was he/she, with whom, why was he/she there...) and a blank grid to fill in. One by one, students had to sit in the hot seat with their card to answer the questions that the rest of members in the roundtable asked them. At the same time, this latter had to listen to the suspect sitting in the hot seat to fill in their grids and be able to compare the actions of the different suspects to reach a solution. Finally, they were given some time to deliberate and discuss who had more chances of being the murderer and why.
We always did our best to adapt to the different context, age group and level of students when implementing this activity.
Down below you can find 3 files, one of which is the CO-teaching Desing activity and the other, the REPORT about its implementation and the third one about PEER ASSESSMENT.
Link to the co-teaching Plan and Design: TASK 5
Link to the co-teaching REPORT of Implementation: TASK 7
