Spring Valley High School and group-work

Okay, the events at Spring Valley High School are going to hijack the blog a little. I am so saddened by the way that discipline was handled in this case. That is, the case of a teacher managing his or her classroom so poorly that a policeman entered and arrested the student. The adolescents in… Continue reading Spring Valley High School and group-work

why group-work is essential for learning

  These children are engaged in what developmental psychologist Barbara Rogoff calls “intent participation.” Each group is learning to perform an engineering task with no teacher. The girls at upper left are constructing a book support out of newspapers and masking tape. The other two groups are constructing parachutes out of coffee filters. None of… Continue reading why group-work is essential for learning