02/13/2019 Individualism Vs. Collectivism

During my experience teaching english at different schools, I have found different kind of students. Just to mention an example I remember this student I had on third grade, He was very curious, always asking questions related to grammar or vocabulary, he was always asking me: "miss, how do you say "____" in english?, whenever there was an activity,  He always wanted to finish first or second; but most of the time, he wanted to be the first one in class, the first one making questions, the first one giving examples, and his hand was always raised. He was a very confident student, always secure of himself. I really loved that he was so participative during english classes; so, now by watching the video and the reading activities I could say He was an  individualist student. On the other hand, in this same class, there was this another boy, he was more shy, he was most of the time in silence, he never raised his hand to participate, I had to call him in order to make him participate by offering examples to the class; but, when we had group works, He was always the leader of the groups, He was always teaching his partners and explaining thin them how to create sentences or to do the planned group activity. I could realize of this because on each group work I used to walk around each group to see their development. So now, by showing these facts, we may say that the first student preferred to work alone in order to achieve his own personal goals, and second student felt more comfortable, being part of a group, and it was inside this group that He was the leader of it, He was always motivating his partners to do their best in order to show a good work, He has a sense of belonging when working in groups.  

As we can see in this picture, an individualism student fosters independence and individual achievement; but, a collectivism student fosters interdependence and group success. Now, that we as teachers, know all this information; we should apply different activities to achieve goals for our individualism and collectivism students, because we will definetely find them in our classes.

 I was thinking about some disadvantages about these two types of features by taking my two previous students as examples. For student A, it was a little difficult to interact with other, his social life at class was not so developed.For student B, some of the members of his groups tend to be a little lazy, always waiting that this student makes everything, which was not fair. 

How do you think as teachers, will deal with these two kind of students in your classes? How could we make them work together without violating their spaces? will it be possible? I would like to read all your responses. We as teachers, must be ready to face any issue or situation inside our classrooms.