How can I improve as a groupmember?

Working in groups is very good to improve social skills. You have to listen to your groupmembers, accept their opinions and discuss with them in a respectful way.

At a group work you can see different viewes on a topic. Maybe one of the groupmembers has a totally different idea to solve a problem than you have. You can see that your idea is not always the best.

I think the best thing at group work is, that you can support each other. You can explain a topic to someone or someone can help you, if you don't understand anything.

The creativity can also develop better in a group work. Maybe five little ideas from 5 different people become one big creative idea.

Educational studies - create a group task

Subject: English

 

Age: 13/14

 

Aims/goals: The goal is to make pupils gaining knowledge about the cultures in there class. This knowledge would help the pupils to be more open minded and to respect other cultures within and outside the classroom.

 

Activity/ description:  Pupils with the same culture form a group and maybe minor cultures form a mixed group.

This activity investigates a different culture than your own. Every group gets a country, they have to choose a subtopic (food, religion, etc.) and gain information about it. Once they have their information, they will prepare a presentation, which will be evaluated by the student of the investigated country.

 

Approach: group investigation

 

Why: We settled this approach for several reasons. One is that they have to do research in English – they have to read, to write and to speak. Also it is very important that the children learn about the other cultures that appear in class. If the know more about the different cultures, they can understand their classmates‘ customs and respect each other.

Another good part of the group investigation is the feedback. It is good that the children evaluate each other, so they can learn how to give constructive feedback.

Cooking for our roommates

As Arda, Emine and Ayse cooked a delicious Turkish meal for us, we decided to do the same.

So the two Lisas and I went to Lidl to buy the ingredients for the Austrian meal we were going to prepare!

 

 

 

We decided to cook a vegetable soup, Schnitzel with rice and potato salad and small apple-strudel.

A walk to the sea

Finally there was a sunny day, so we decided to go to the sea. We walked through the forest and enjoyed the lovely weather...

Copenhagen

Because we had a week off at the end of february, we decided to go to Copenhagen.
We walked trough the city, saw a lot of sights and went shopping!
Here are some pictures:

Tour de Chambre and Common dinner

To get to know each other our tutors organized the "Tour de Chambre".

The students decorate their rooms and all students go together from room to room to see them.

 

I decorated my room with some pictures of my family and friends.

 

 

 

One week later we had a common dinner. We formed groups with people of our homecountry and cooked a typical dish.

My group (Theresa, Lisa, Alexandra and I) cooked Kaiserschmarrn.

After preparing the meals at home, we met at the cafeteria and ate together.

 

 

First weeks in Vordingborg

The first weeks in Vordingborg were amazing. Denmark is a very beautiful country with an impressing landscape.

We used the first days to discover the country and found some very beautiful places.

 

We went to the harbour where we took some pictures.



 

After the first days here in Vordingborg, I can say that I like this country very much. The landscape is beautiful and the people in this country are very helpful and friendly.