Week 6: Infused Classroom: Breakout Rooms
What are Breakout Rooms?
Breakout rooms provide students with opportunities to meet in small- groups to discuss their learning and work through problems and/or ask questions together. Students can use this tool to critically think about their assignments and information, and then share their findings or understandings with the rest of the class when they return from the Breakout room.How can these be useful?
- Students can think about the differences and similarities between the groups discussions and questions
- Allows students who typically do not share aloud to feel more comfortable sharing with others in their rooms since it is a smaller, more relaxed setting
- Provides time for collaboration and communication between students
Other applications that work well with these rooms:
- Socrative
- Jamboard
- Flipgrid
- Zoom
- Google Meet
Hi Kayla,
ReplyDeleteI have not taken the leap into break out rooms yet. However, the more I read about them, the more I want to try. I think the option with Flipgird sounds more aligned to my class content since they would be producing something in the end. Thank you for the information! Week 6
Hi Kayla, I am glad you have found many benefits in using breakout rooms. As a resource special education teacher, my groups are typically pretty small, so I don’t utilize breakout rooms a lot, but will at times if they are completing independent work. When I support my students in the general ed class, many of their teachers utilize breakout rooms. They are often used in place of a turn and talk. A teacher may read a section of the text, pose a question, and then have students briefly discuss it and share their thinking in a breakout room. Then when students return, the teacher will ask what was shared in a specific breakout room and this keeps all students accountable. Also, the gen ed teacher can assign me to a specific breakout room, so I can work with/observe my students. Thanks for sharing about your success Kayla and how you have found them to be useful. – Alison Smith
ReplyDeleteHi Kayla- I used breakout rooms some last spring, doing my virtual version of a group project of worldbuilding in freshman English. It worked pretty well, but my struggle was always making sure each group was on task and being appropriate when, as the only adult, I could only be observing one group at a time. So it's helpful, but also tough to monitor. Thanks for sharing other ways to use breakout rooms -- I like the jamboard idea for breakouts!
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