The many benefits of group work include students being able to accentuate their strengths and work through their weaknesses, as each person in the group can bring something different to the table. Also, the stress involved in a group becomes a lot lighter than one individual trying to make sure every angle of the work is covered. Furthermore, group work becomes more of a non-personal level of study, that is, one student does not feel responsible for every small aspect of the work. Finally, group work is a very practical method in the real world. Many occupations require work to be done by more than one person.

Some people are naturally prone to a weakness in areas such as public speaking or writing. Work done in a group, allows this barr

It may be argued that group work only hinders the student’s ability to further develop skills in these areas, when in fact the opposite may also occur. If a student is not very developed as a public speaker, being in a group with someone who is can be very rewarding. The poor speaker has a chance to work with someone who can help them develop their public speaking skills by teaching them methods and tricks to making it easier. The poor speaker then learns from the strong speaker and thus develops as a well-spoken student.

There is another problem with individual work, and it is a psychological problem. Picture this scenario: You just finished work that you were assigned to do individually. Your work must be presented to your instructor or classmates. During your presentation, you begin to get nervous knowing that you are responsible for every detail of what you’re presenting. Do you feel worried that if you slip up even a second, everyone will notice your mistake? Everyone will know you were the one that screwed up. Haven’t you had that feeling of being unsure of your own work? Students are naturally worried about sharing their work with their peers because they fear any mistakes they have made. If a teacher asks a student to read a piece of work, how many volunteers do they get, three? Maybe four? Group work is a more non-personal way of presenting ideas or doing a project. It allows more than one perspective on the finished product, giving people more confidence in what they finish. If a teacher assigned a paper to be written in groups of two or three, when he or she asks groups to read theirs, students will be more confident th

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