For Those Who Teach, Group Work

A More Strategic Approach to Arranging Students into Groups

By Maryellen Weimer
June 20, 2018

What’s the best way to put students into groups? It’s the first task that confronts teachers who want students to work together. And the best reply is one of those “it depends” answers. Here are the questions on which it depends.

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