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What's the best (and easiest) way to teach?

Sep 25, 2018 | Category: Featured
I thought I'd said all I ever wanted to say about group work until, responding to a tweet from an education professor exhorting all teachers to add group work to their teaching repertoires, I unwisely...
#group work #direct instruction #Robert Slavin #PISA #collaborative learning #McKinsey #Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction #whole class instruction

Should group work be imposed?

Feb 15, 2015 | Category: Featured
I recently posted some thoughts on what group work is and isn't good for. At no point did I say it was good for nothing (although predictably my opinion was caricatured as 'hating' group work) and I h...
#group work #Cristina Milos #Education Endowment Foundation #Robert Slavin

Why (the hell) should students work in groups?

Feb 11, 2015 | Category: Featured
In a recent TES article James Mannion and Neil Mercer make the following claim: In not using group work, students are denied the chance to develop skills that can not only help them perform better in...
#groupwork #James Mannion #Neil Mercer #Robert Slavin

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