Jacqueline Chaney’s 2nd grade class buzzes with activity all day long, and a good chunk of it takes place in groups. By just the second month of school, the 7- and 8-year-olds move effortlessly in and ...
Assessing group work involves evaluating a group's achievement of learning outcomes through collaborative assignments or projects (product), that group's ability to work together (process), and/or the ...
Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really ...
Team and group collaboration is an increasingly important component to many workplaces, including brainstorming ideas, co-writing reports, and working together to solve complex problems. In this ...
In a remote or hybrid environment, asking students to turn to a neighbor to discuss a concept or answer a question requires a few extra steps. However, using Zoom breakout rooms, you can still ...
The many functions of group work – whether it’s used as a short-term device or integrated more deeply within courses – make it a common pedagogical approach in UK higher education. At its most ...
Diversity, equity and inclusion programs continue to be attacked at the federal and state level, but in Charlotte, officials with the Center for Racial Equity in Education, or CREED, say efforts to ...
When students engage in group work that is intentionally designed to support cooperative learning, they develop interpersonal and critical thinking skills while practicing accountability behaviors ...
A few years ago, we hired an adjunct professor to teach a three-hour night class. After a few weeks, he came to us in frustration because he couldn’t get the students to discuss the material, and when ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What are your recommendations for how best to set up and organize small groups in classroom instruction? Many teachers find that well-organized student small-group ...
Group projects can be a challenge for many students, especially those new to college. They might prefer working alone, worry about others not pulling their weight, or feel group work slows progress.