Question

Mr. Phillips is grouping his fifth-grade students for a cooperative learning project that will span class periods for two weeks. He has 5 groups of four plus one group of three. He balanced the number of boys and girls in the groups and made sure the students who are perceived by their peers to be different were placed in a group together. What does he need to change about his groups?

Answer 1

Answer:    Place a students who is different in a group with a student who is tolerant

Explanation:  If Mr. Philips put all students who were perceived by peers as different in one group, this would then make them feel labelled and even rejected, and not as part of the whole community, but as a different group within the community. There are always students who will find different students repulsive and sometimes will even show some aggression towards them. That is why it is better to allocate such different students to groups with more tolerant students, because it is important that different students feel and experience that they are part of the whole, that is, in groups that accept them as different.