Teamwork: Making Dreams Work Since a Really Long Time Ago.
The cafe was warm, and soft morning sunlight streamed in through the tinted windows and onto Maria’s piles of newspaper clippings and scribbled-on napkins. Despite […]
Month: October 2017
Building the A-Team
Think back to high school, maybe even middle school (in some cases college), what was the one activity that every time the teacher mentioned it […]
Collaboration Nation
In many classrooms, students sit in straight rows, face forward, and the teacher lectures at them for 45 to 55 minutes. The students take notes […]
An Interesting Perspective: Less Me, More We
Howdy bloggers, Today marks the fourth official installment on An Interesting Perspective. In this post, we will discuss cooperative learning and its importance within the […]
Who Packs Your Parachute?
I have a question for you: why do we teach teamwork in schools? While you think about that one, consider this story- Charles Plumb […]
There’s No “I” in Team
Cooperative Learning “Cooperative learning” may seem like a foreign concept to those who went through school with just lectures and tests with nothing else in […]
Working Together, Working To Get There
Collaboration. Conversation. Building off of others. These are all things that are essential for a classroom to be as productive as possible. All of these […]
Cooperative Learning, a Human Dinosaur, and Your Classroom
What does this video of marching band have to do with your classroom? To me, this video- and marching band itself- is the epitome of cooperative […]