Learning Together

This past week my Nursing Essentials class has been studying the different types of elder abuse. For this particular lesson I decided to divide the students up into groups of 4. Each group was assigned one of the abuse types presented in the lesson. The groups were given instructions to research an abuse type by finding a recent case using the Internet. Each group had to give 3 specific examples of the abuse reported and 2 interventions that could help to prevent the abuse from occurring again. During the presentations, each student would be responsible for completing their study guide while each group presented their examples to the entire class. I think this particular assignment was very positive for the entire class. The groups did a very good job with distributing the assigned task to everyone in the group and each group was able to learn the various types of abuse in an interactive format. I noticed that some of my students who normally sat back and watched were put in a position to participate. I really like the Learning Together Strategy and I will continue to use it with other lessons.