3 Effective Group Work Strategies for Your Classroom
Follow these effective group work strategies to engage your students, support social emotional learning, and build creative problem-solving skills.
Follow these effective group work strategies to engage your students, support social emotional learning, and build creative problem-solving skills.
To support traditional teachers in student-centered practices, it’s important to address common concerns around the challenges of student-centered learning.
Flexible groupings allow students to work at their own level while also providing opportunities for collaborative learning.
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While it may seem paradoxical for students to work at their own pace and meet content standards, students can learn so much more effectively when work is targeted at their level. Leveled groups are most successful when students are grouped accurately and teachers facilitate effectively.
When we deliver information to our classes via lecture, we often wonder how much they are ‘picking up what we’re putting down.’ When the assessment comes days or weeks later, it can be hard to tell whether a student’s difficulties come from attention, comprehension, or retention.
In this third and final section, we’ll consider ways to use data and data-driven platforms to personalize instruction for individual students.
In this week’s post, we will look at some ways that data can help us plan for whole group or small group lessons. I tend to interpret my class data by starting with a broad overview and “zooming in” to understand more specifics.