Teacher Mood

JUNE 17, 2025

Group work? Did I teach, model, and reteach behaviors consistently? Check out my Teaching Classroom Rules starter kit or my blog post all about teaching classroom rules ! Ask yourself: What routines ran smoothly without constant reminders? Which expectations did your students consistently meet? Transitions?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Show students how flexible seating works If your students aren’t familiar with all the flexible seating arrangements in your classroom, diagrams and posters can help ensure they use them properly. When students are in groups, it’s easy to tell them to ‘turn and talk,’ ‘think-pair-share,’ or ‘turn-and-teach,’” she explains.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

Use these easy and effective ELA activities for middle school to keep students engaged and teach them valuable skills. Set up clues and puzzles that come from the novel your class is reading, and let small groups work together to figure them out. Extra points to the team that solves the escape room first!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 18, 2025

This isn’t just a checklist: It’s your blueprint of essentials for a high school math classroom that supports every learner and highlights your unique teaching style. It’s perfect for group work and simulations. Students can make quick corrections, making graphing stress-free. This is your year to slay math education.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

Consider having groups work together in a team-building exercise or letting individuals try their hand (get it?) Use a spectroscope to see the world through new eyes If you’ve always wanted to teach a light engineering lab but couldn’t afford a class set of spectroscopes, you’re in luck!

Middle School 52

Middle School Middle School Schools Science 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

If you had to teach a class, what would the class be called? Team-Building High School Icebreaker Activities What better way to break the ice than to have students work together as a team? Guess That Song: Student groups work together to guess a song you play within the first few seconds.

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Jodi Durgin

JULY 13, 2025

It’s great for centers, small group work, early finisher tasks, and whole group instruction. Patrick’s Day Teaching Resources Check out all of the St. Patrick’s Day with Elementary Students appeared first on Teaching with Jodi Durgin and Company. The activities are interactive and exciting!

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Teach Hub

MAY 19, 2025

I can show respect during group work by listening and taking turns. Once your goals are clear, it becomes a lot easier to create assessments that actually measure what you set out to teach. Use regular check-ins to guide teaching Keep checking in with students as you go, not just at the end. Time to reteach.

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Learning Outcomes Learning Feedback Essay 78

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2015

As I approached our final unit of the year, I decided to embrace a free range approach to teaching. This is a dramatic departure from the traditional approach to literature circles, which requires members of the group to complete specific jobs. This experiment into free range teaching was really positive.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

note : Video of the Week picks are supplied by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Group work, on the other hand, tends to come with challenges.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

But despite these challenges, there are bright spots in teaching and learning. Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Data can empower districts to align teaching with student needs. Dive into Dr. Verma’s argument for elementary-level STEM.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

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? The first question I'm gonna answer is the second one, which is, why do people assign group work?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

note : Video of the Week picks are supplied by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to watch the video at Common Sense Education.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our introductory students often come to us with varying degrees of understanding of the languages and cultures that we teach.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Our introductory students often come to us with varying degrees of understanding of the languages and cultures that we teach.

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Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

They appreciated this flexibility, but it also meant that preservice teachers like Tonja would need to apply everything they learned about teaching to two very different modalities: in-person and online. Tonja and I planning what co-teaching strategy to use for our class. Often, at the same time!

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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. Related content: 3 keys to teaching students with dyslexia to read. As the dyslexia coordinator for my district, I’m a big believer in individualized, in-person interventions. Staying connected.

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Distance Learning Learning Students Group work 330

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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Teaching Students Writing Curriculum 217

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

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

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Skills Students High School High School 323

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously. Teaching is a challenging profession on the best of days.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

It means really rethinking our entire approach to teaching. ” The truth is I didn’t need to teach my 9th and 10th-grade students what an RSA animated film is or how to create one. Then groups worked together to write a project proposal explaining how they were going to execute this project.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. But there has been progress, both with the tools themselves and the teaching practices we employ to incorporate technology into the classroom. How do we do that?

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Technology Teaching Intellectual Development Instructors 167

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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Cognitive Development Students Secondary Education Assignments 286

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. References Monson, R.

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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. Use tech to pre-teach. Related : The phonics fix?

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Grades Reading Group work Activities 323

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The student and professor both shared the story last week during a session on culturally-responsive teaching in online courses at the 2017 OLC Accelerate Conference, in Orlando. Group work in face-to-face classes can be challenging as it is,” Parra said. I have students really take all of those choices,” Parra said.

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Culture Teaching Syllabus English 153

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Part of what we are teaching kids is to be kind to each other, to be empathetic, and to employ positive social behaviors and language. Group work vs. cooperative learning. Simultaneous interaction : the number of students interacting at any one moment in time is increased. Our teachers love the training.

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Learning Social Studies Participation Group work 279

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are the 5 methods of teaching? What are the 5 methods of teaching? Effective teaching methods in K-12 education encompass a variety of approaches tailored to engage students and promote meaningful learning experiences.

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Teaching Teaching Methods Critical Thinking Learning Styles 130

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.

Beliefs 494

Beliefs Discussions Assignments Blended Learning 494

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. References Monson, R.

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Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2019

One of my favorite acronyms for teaching the responsibility of our words is T.H.I.N.K. In addition to teaching students to be kind to others, it is important to teach them to be kind to themselves. Partner and group work. Roleplaying activities can teach compassion and perspective. THINK-ing about our words.

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Activities Feedback Communication Critical Thinking 279

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Guidebooks to structure group work. These active learning strategies can work in any course—for any major, in any discipline. YouTube videos for extra credit. A tattoo writing exercise. Vocab riddles. moment they seek is almost inevitable. University of Michigan's Marcus Collins.

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Active Learning Activities Teaching Multidisciplinary 163

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Dynamics of group interaction play a huge role in society, so Calarco fosters positive group work in her classroom. For example, to ensure the podcasting groups are well balanced, Calarco asks students what roles they would like to play; the clearly defined choices are reporter, editor / executive producer, and sound engineer.

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Teaching Multidisciplinary Culture Feedback 167

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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Schools Students Hybrid Learning Textbooks 267

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This “cookbook recipe” teaching style not only stifles creativity, but it can also hinder critical thinking skill development. At the age level I teach, pretty much everyone needs my attention at the same time, but I only have two hands. I only have two hands. It’s all-encompassing.

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Science Critical Thinking STEM Textbooks 307

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: Education technology is a classroom must-have Technology enables access to important resources Stay up to date on the latest in education technology The use of education technology in the classroom has revolutionized the way teaching and learning occur, offering new opportunities to enhance educational experiences.

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Technology Teaching Learning Styles Quizzes 137