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A Student and a Teacher Try to Untangle Why Group Work Is, Well, Terrible

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Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. Why does group work suck so much? And why do teachers and professors continue to assign it? The second question is, why does group work suck so much?

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Free Range Teaching

Catlin Tucker

This is a dramatic departure from the traditional approach to literature circles, which requires members of the group to complete specific jobs. I’ve always been torn about assigning students specific roles. They brainstormed ideas and groups worked at their own pace to complete their various performance tasks.

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Back to Basics: Lesson Planning for the Concurrent Classroom

Catlin Tucker

In a previous post, I described how blended learning models could make this challenging teaching assignment more manageable ; however, that post assumes that teachers are familiar with blended learning. For any teacher reading this post looking for strategies and support, I want to thank you for doing this job. You matter.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

However, we have often been frustrated by the lessons proposed in our language textbooks for learning about culture; these lessons usually come in the form of disconnected short readings with comprehension questions. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

However, we have often been frustrated by the lessons proposed in our language textbooks for learning about culture; these lessons usually come in the form of disconnected short readings with comprehension questions. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.

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Lessons from an online teacher: Supporting phenomena-based learning

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This program also provides the educator with the ability to assign the same science article to students to read, but at their reading level. Once the teacher assigns the STEM activity to a class, students can access it immediately. Gizmos also offers math programs–Reflex and Frax.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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I have read and loved them all. Read more from Emily here. The book I read this year that blew me away was “ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ” by Gabrielle Zevin. Read more from Jeff here. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars. It comes out in all sorts of ways. It would also, of course, improve their lives.

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