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All of them with clear and challenging objectives.
All of them working, all hooked, all challenged, all participating, all contributing all the time!
All independent work groups are as important as or more important than the teachers´ one.
All of them have significant and challenging activities, and require everybody’s effort and
contribution for their good performance
Each group uses tools for thought
Each group has practical guidelines that facilitate, remind, organize and promote work and mind
habits.
As the students get to know these guidelines and tools for thought, they are invited to suggest
which one they use and choose them by themselves autonomously.

If we combine the table of teacher roles with the one of work in groups, we see:
Complete group Multiple groups Multiple groups Multiple
or 2 groups
Controller
Guide

groups

of the conversation.

multiple tasks

with differentiation

Teacher center of

Teacher works with

Not possible to find a

activity.

a group that turns

teacher with these

into the most

or Teacher is the center

Same task

characteristics.

Few students

Difference is

participate.

important one.

marked by physical
organization and not

Control due to

Other groups have

by participation.

simple tasks so the
teacher does not lose

obedience and
authority.

Loss of everyone´s
time, attention, and
participation.

control of what may
happen.