Productive Group Work: How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding

The advantages of collaborative studying are properly documented—and but, virtually each instructor is aware of how group work can go improper: stressed college students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little studying for all the hassle concerned. On this guide, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi Everlove present you the right way to make all group work productive group work: with all college students engaged within the tutorial content material and with one another, constructing priceless social expertise, consolidating and increasing their data, and rising their readiness for unbiased studying.

The important thing to getting probably the most out of group work is to match research-based ideas of group work with sensible motion. Classroom examples throughout grade ranges and disciplines illustrate the right way to

* Create interdependence and constructive interplay
* Mannequin and information group work
* Design difficult and fascinating group duties
* Guarantee group and particular person accountability
* Assess and monitor college students’ growing understanding (and present them the right way to do the identical)
* Foster important interpersonal expertise, reminiscent of considering with readability, listening, giving helpful suggestions, and contemplating completely different factors of view.

The authors additionally handle probably the most continuously requested questions on group work, together with the perfect methods to kind teams, accommodate blended readiness ranges, and introduce collaborative studying routines into the classroom. All through, they construct a case that productive group work is each an important a part of a gradual launch of duty educational mannequin and a obligatory a part of good instructing observe.

Writer ‏ : ‎ ASCD
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2009
Version ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1416608834
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416608837
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.9 x 0.4 x 8.9 inches