Small+Group+Instruction

Small Group Instruction Small group instruction will typcally consist of 3-7 students, especially recommended for students with lerning problems. Tier 2 instruction in an RTI model. Attempt to group students who have similar instructional needs an a specific academic area. Advantages:
 * -Students are able to participate more during instruction
 * -Teachers are able to provide more instruction, praise, and feedback
 * -Students are able to progresss at their own rates.
 * -Small-group instruction typically is less boring.
 * -Teachers using small-group instruction are able to monitor the progress of students better and make teaching modifications
 * -Small-group instruction provides students with language differences with a more comfortable setting for participating and seeing for clarification. The small group arrangement is especially important for students with learning and behavioral problems.
 * A small-group follow-up can be helpful to student who do not learn sufficiently during large group teacher presentations.
 * Samall group instruction may have an advantage over one-on-one instruction because a student with learning problems, may, through observation, learn a skill that is being taught to another group member.
 * Small group setting provide the opportunity to increase the intensity of intervention for students who have moved to Tier 2 in an RTI model.
 * Disadvantages:
 * Students are required to do more seatwork.
 * Teachers must do more planning
 * Teachers must organize more insructional variables (such as grouping students, managing transitions, monitoring seatwork activities for students when they are not in their small group.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 160%;">Teachers must organize more insructional variables (such as grouping students, managing transitions, monitoring seatwork activities for students when they are not in their small group.

<span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Things to know to implement small groups

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 160%;">Establish rules for small-group instruction <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 160%;">Make the groups as homogeneous as possible. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 160%;">Locate the small group in an area that allows the teacher to scan the entire class. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 160%;">Place the students in a semicircle so that their shoulders align with the shoulders of the students beside them <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 160%;">Use motivation activities during small group work