Get Your Students Hired
Starting to see a great divide!
Made several attempts "mixing" groups (intro courses), but at times certain students still feel left-out, disengaged, or display a separatist/independent attitude.
I do have quite a few combat veterans intermixed within several younger generational groups, but still see very slow progress of classroom interaction from student-to-student.
What is there to do?
Jamie, mixing up people takes them out of their comfort zone and teaches them to interact with a variety of people. This will help them on the job.
Michele Deck
I would maybe start out with an ice breaker. Then put individuals into larger groups and then smaller groups once they get comfortable with each other.
KEN, I would mix people in a way that looked random but was not. I would match a friendly student with an analytical one. I would conduct and activity where they shared some personal info with each other(ie. what are you most proud of in your life, have you met a famous person, or a thinking puzzle, etc). After done time getting to work with just one other person, I would join 2 groups together to make groups of 4 and give them some time working together to answer questions, perform skills, etc. Then mid course I would mix them up with people they don't know all over again in the same way.
Michele Deck