Elementary teachers can have students take on different roles and work together to build a more complete understanding of new words.

Whole-Group Formation Stage' of classroom group development using two axes: 'stability' and 'activity.' The key points were to keep roles flexible rather than fixed, and to progress from a stage of co ...

Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

“A structured form of small group problem solving that incorporates the use of heterogeneous teams, maintains individual accountability, promotes positive interdependence, instills group processing, ...

Academic instructors, hired for their content expertise, are rarely trained in skills like classroom facilitation or community-building. But successful collaborative learning requires a degree of ...

Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy where students work together in small groups to achieve shared learning goals. It has numerous benefits for both academic and social development. The ...