Elementary School and Group work

5 educators share insights into teaching and learning

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development.

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Learning Without Tears Scores Big in 2023 EdTech Awards

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APRIL 7, 2023

The elementary school-level programs benefit all learners with multisensory, developmentally appropriate, proven practices, and are used by millions of students around the world. Cool Tool, Leadership, and Trendsetter honorees span the K-12, Higher Ed, and Skills & Workforce sectors.

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This district’s blended learning program is putting struggling readers back on track

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Our blended model starts with an engaging digital curriculum, one-to-one instruction, and small-group work. Ten to 15 percent of students entering the intervention program at the start of the school year were able to “graduate” and transition back to the traditional classroom by January.

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K-12 Class Sizes Have Ballooned With Online Learning. It’s Not a Good Thing.

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

Grades

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So what was the optimal way to form a group? Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. Likewise, having students set their own groups was a dumpster fire — that was not conducive to thinking. This is human nature.

Teaching

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In Washington’s Most Diverse District, STEM Opportunities Provide New Paths to Success

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Each area feeds into one comprehensive high school with a variety of Career and Technical Education STEM/STEAM pathways including computer science, engineering, environmental science, health science, and manufacturing and construction. Problem/Project based learning.

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A Team Effort: Educators Collaborate to Bring AI Into K-12 Classes

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We spoke with this dynamic group of educators about how the AI Explorations course helped reshape and expand their efforts to integrate AI tools and teaching into K-12 classrooms. We see each other on Zoom meetings or chat on our WebEx channel, but this was an opportunity to get a group working together that was really diverse.

Intelligence

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

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We had a great talk about why group work is terrible and how to fix it, so check out the Q&A if you haven’t already.) Read more from Daniel here. Nadia I interviewed Jen Manly in person this summer, and I’ve been following her Strategic Classroom account on Instagram ever since. (We

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Sir Ken Robinson’s Next Act: You Are the System and You Can Change Education

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

How should both groups work together? I was looking recently at a school called Orchard Gardens in Massachusetts, which I talk about in the new book. This is an elementary school that was right at the bottom of the list of achievement in the district. A sink school that nobody wanted to send their kids to.

Education

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How to Avoid Favoritism in Your Classroom

Teach Hub

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Many elementary school teachers like this approach because it eliminates the why dont you ever pick me comments that they usually get from the students. Carefully Plan Group Collaboration Group work is a great way to encourage collaboration and build a sense of community in the classroom.

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How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A flexible classroom is a learning environment that utilizes an “agile physical setup that will accommodate both independent and group work,” according to a CDW white paper on constructing modern classrooms. After Kelly Almer, an elementary school teacher for Littleton (Colo.) What Is a Flexible Classroom?

Schools

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Caring and Curriculum Can Prompt School-Wide Change

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Whether she’s searching for standards-aligned curriculum or playing dress-up, the Tool Elementary School principal does whatever it takes to lift her students from struggling to successful. Christal Calhoun Here, Calhoun shares how the right blend of caring and curriculum transformed her Texas elementary school.

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