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 […]
Cooperative Learning
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 […]
Risk Taking in the Classroom
Taking a risk is something that every individual handles in a different way. Some people just go all in right away, and some people are […]
What it Means to be an Exemplary Science Teacher
What it does not mean… What is wrong with the picture below? Students are dis interested, there is no conversation occurring, no one is […]