Victoria Deneroff Fine Art

Category: designing group-work

Spring Valley High School and group-work

Oct 28, 2015

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Vickie

in classroom management, designing group-work, learning through discussion, social justice, STEM Education

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…
why group-work is essential for learning

Oct 27, 2015

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Vickie

in designing group-work, learning through discussion, STEM Education

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…