Kristen Budd refuses to settle. The associate professor of sociology and gerontology and 2019 E. Phillip Knox Distinguished Teaching Award recipient is turning traditional classroom group work on its ...

Jacqueline Chaney’s 2nd grade class buzzes with activity all day long, and a good chunk of it takes place in groups. By just the second month of school, the 7- and 8-year-olds move effortlessly in and ...

Throughout my years as a student, I've learned to dread a phrase that keeps popping up more and more in the classroom: group work. Now, I know what you're thinking: "Two heads are better than one," ...

Group work refers to learning experiences in which students work together on the same task. Group work can help build a positive and engaging learning community through peer learning and teaching.

Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really ...

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(This is the last post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Nancy Frey is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Frey also teaches ...