Organizing for Learning: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Interact Within Small Groups (Essentials for Achieving Rigor);

Can your students actively process content in groups? To meet rigorous standards, students need to be able to engage in partner discussions, cooperative projects, and peer response grouping. They must be able to reflect on learning as a group. Organizing for Learning: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Interact Within Small Groups explores explicit techniques for mastering this crucial strategy of instructional practice. It includes adaptations for various student populations, examples and nonexamples from classroom practice, and strategies to avoid making common mistakes.