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Outline the rationale of group work/assignment

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- It initiates and encourages co-operative action. Successful co operative action depends upon a variety of skills on the part of participating individuals. Such skills are learnt through practice. For example in school, subjects like social studies can provide situations which are suited for practice in the application of group work skills.
- It is used to deal with individual differences in class according to their level of performance in a skill.
- It helps learners to learn more effectively than they would if the class were always taught as a unit with everyone being taught the same thing at the same time. This is achieved by the teacher organizing work for each group separately, considering the fact that some students may be weak at performing one skill and yet good at another.
- To serves as a follow-up activity to what has already been learnt in the classroom.
- Group work/ assignment provide an excellent opportunity for reinforcing previously learnt skills or knowledge.
- To prepare learners for the next lesson. Assignments can be designed to give them background information and knowledge about lessons to come. This can help establish the appreciative basis for new learning experiences as well as develop proper attitude.
- To provide direction and guidance for independent study. Very few secondary school learners are able to develop the skill of studying on their own. Assignments can provide a direct and deliberate means of teaching the skills of independent study. Given enough practice students will be able to learn effectively on their own, without having to rely on their teacher’s direction all the time.
- To develop a positive attitude towards extra work and good study habits. Stimulating and challenging assignments help create a favorable attitude towards learning activities inside and outside the classroom. Learners are motivated to do better in each succeeding assignments.
- To provide an excellent means for developing a higher order of mental processes. One of the criticisms of our education system today is that most of the normal classroom activities are directed towards more acquisition of facts and information. Thus there is no provision for the development of thinking and reasoning abilities. The assignment can offer an excellent opportunity for the use of judgment and reasoning.

Titany answered the question on September 15, 2021 at 08:27

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