Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. How Does This Apply to Group Work?

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2020

So much of the support we offer our students with dyslexia is centered around small group work during our intervention block. As the dyslexia coordinator for my district, I’m a big believer in individualized, in-person interventions. It certainly made the sudden switch to distance learning quite the challenge!

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. Common Approach #16: Grouping students for simple tasks Tweak: Design group work for complex tasks that require multiple thinkers.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

Teach Group Work Etiquette: Don’t assume your students remember how to have group discussions. If you don’t use it, you lose it, right? What do we do to help our students regain these “educational muscles?” Here are six sure-fire ideas to re-ignite learning: 1. Teach the basics of supporting one another and listening to ideas.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

Then groups worked together to write a project proposal explaining how they were going to execute this project. It required them to think through the purpose, strategy, and process before beginning their work.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 5, 2016

Stations can be composed of a variety of activities (including, but not limited to): Teacher-led small group instruction. Collaborative small group work. If teachers have ample access to technology, they can design multiple stations that incorporate technology. Makerspace station. Computer time with adaptive software.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2025

The devices feature zView technology, allowing for collaborative group work and presentations. zSpace unveiled the zSpace Imagine Learning Solutiona headset-free AR/VR laptop system designed specifically for elementary learners. The all-in-one solution offers a platform that integrates hardware, software, and hands-on lessons.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Group work vs. cooperative learning. When I was still in the classroom, I called lots of activities “group work,” but some students hid from the learning while others carried the group, and that is not true of cooperative learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

Changes in the classroom that brought many advantages, such as interactive technologies, more small group work, and flexible classrooms, have contributed to noise levels. At 77 decibels, the average classroom produces the same level of noise as freeway traffic or other “annoyingly loud” sounds. What’s causing all this noise?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2024

In elementary education, incorporating hands-on activities, promoting group work, and using visual aids are crucial for effective learning. Group work fosters collaborative learning through projects and discussions, thereby encouraging students to consider different viewpoints and ideas. Hands-on activities (i.e.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Natural leaders may emerge during group work as part of a team presentation assignment. Multimedia learning tools play an important role in classrooms in a number of ways–including, but not limited to, boosting creativity, encouraging student engagement, and helping students learn to collaborate.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The “groups do” allows students to work collaboratively in small groups (in-class, online, or mixed group composed of in-person and online students) to practice a strategy or skill without the teacher’s guidance or support.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing. If students are not participating in discussion or group work in breakout rooms, that may indicate that they are not feeling comfortable asserting themselves online.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2015

They brainstormed ideas and groups worked at their own pace to complete their various performance tasks. In a single class, I had groups designing everything from RSA animation videos to creative board games based on their novels to multimedia vocabulary videos.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Over the past several years, these spaces have transformed into collaborative areas that encourage group work, discussions, and hands-on activities, promoting creativity and innovation–ultimately becoming instrumental in shaping well-rounded, adaptable learners.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A neurodivergent student who struggles with any of these might tune out or do the complete opposite and engage in a way that creates stress within the group. This is exacerbated online, so I use a private chat tool in classroom.cloud to support my students in group work. I push them to speak up.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2018

Cuningham Group worked with a planning committee that consisted of more than 70 members representing all major stakeholder groups in a series of workshops where they shared their vision, standards, criteria and priorities for the Sartell-St.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For group work, either to help solve problems in the group or to gauge progress, record interactions so students can review and reflect on how they interact with their peers. Likewise, congratulate them for progress and good efforts with virtual badges.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

The most effective technology works with you to enable or extend the instruction you’re providing. In small-group work, for example, students can do so many things with technology, such as reading aloud, practicing decoding, doing a word sort, or practicing dictation. Related : The phonics fix?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It includes everything we need for a project: the group work activities, the labs, supplies for teachers and students, and the reinforcement labs. The program is designed to be flexible and allows me “pick and pull” as much as I want to use. There was very little that I had to get outside of the platform’s curriculum.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2019

Students would have to be in a workshop atmosphere working on reading, writing, projects, or collaborative group work—not a sit-and-get classroom. If a teacher had only 1,000 words to spend, then that means the students’ task would have to be engaging, extended, and meaningful.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2019

Partner and group work. Group/partner projects are important to encourage communication, emotional awareness, teamwork, and accountability. Correct and model these phrases for students: “Instead of ‘I’m not good at this’ we say, ‘Learning takes time.’”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Because students control their learning in the PBL approach, differentiation is simple, if needed at all, as students conduct their own learning at their own pace and present their learning in a mode that makes sense to them.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

With a wide variety of hardware and software solutions that gather and share information, facilitate group work, enable remote learning, broadcast messages and more, the scope of educational technology is broadening, leaving some schools unsure about where to invest.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Those TVs—three in each room—are all wired together so that teachers and students can show one example on all three or operate each one individually for small-group work. We have audio systems in the ceiling so students don’t depend on the sound from a TV that might be 25 feet away from them.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Because students control their learning in the PBL approach, differentiation is simple, if needed at all, as students conduct their own learning at their own pace and present their learning in a mode that makes sense to them.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2018

According to SAGE Journals , “Policymakers and researchers see small-group work as a way to improve attitudes toward school, foster achievement, develop thinking skills, and promote interpersonal and intergroup relations.” Laptops alone cannot meet this need, which can have an impact on students’ development.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

At our school, over the years we replaced individual student desks with flexible, wheeled chairs and desks that we can easily move from individual work to group work. So, how do you fix this?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

This is largely thanks to the hard work of organizations like The National Association for Music Education , which puts learners in contact with community music groups. Working with NAME can help your school address important concerns related to musical education and community engagement.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Group work is a great tool in a STEM teacher’s arsenal, and one of the most important ways that modern teaching is deviating from the traditional lecture (Freeman et al., Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Group work, projects, and activities allow students to interact with and learn from each other. Use small groups to discuss and solve problems. Having MLs create their own visual explanations , rather than relying solely on verbal and written explanations, can help them learn complex concepts and systems.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Because students control their learning in the PBL approach, differentiation is simple, if needed at all, as students conduct their own learning at their own pace and present their learning in a mode that makes sense to them.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

About EdTech Digest and the EdTech Awards EdTech Digest, a leading source of cool tools, interviews, and trends showcasing the future of learning — annually honors the best and brightest people, products and groups working in EdTech with The EdTech Awards.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Group presentations. Group work is not a new concept for K-12 classrooms. Teachers can leverage classroom technology such as projectors, headsets, audio systems and more to prepare students. Here are a handful of ways teachers can make the most out of AV tools for 21 st century learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Later the teacher will review the groups work and provide them with feedback directed at the competencies they are working to achieve. A nearby laptop is open and readily available so students can use it to clarify or search for additional information.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Thus, activities like class discussions, peer collaboration boards, and opportunities to consider and apply learning to pertinent real-world scenarios in small groups offer the chance to grow academically as well as socially and emotionally.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Using Chromebooks for interactive lessons and group work helps encourage problem-solving and teamwork in the classroom–skills students will be grateful to have in the future. K-12 schools. These devices and the included applications like Google Docs support collaborative learning. Broadband improvements.

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