Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really ...

Jacqueline Chaney’s 2nd grade class buzzes with activity all day long, and a good chunk of it takes place in groups. By just the second month of school, the 7- and 8-year-olds move effortlessly in and ...

Team and group collaboration is an increasingly important component to many workplaces, including brainstorming ideas, co-writing reports, and working together to solve complex problems. In this ...

When students engage in group work that is intentionally designed to support cooperative learning, they develop interpersonal and critical thinking skills while practicing accountability behaviors ...

Educators from across Missouri have arrived at a draft set of guidelines that they say will help students "become good humans." A work group of 29 teachers, principals, researchers and other educators ...

I have a suggestion for the author of the essay “I’m a Student. Here’s Why Group Work Feels So Unfair ” (Nov. 11, 2022). In Don Meichenbaum’s and my book, Nurturing Independent Learners (Brookline ...

A few years ago, we hired an adjunct professor to teach a three-hour night class. After a few weeks, he came to us in frustration because he couldn’t get the students to discuss the material, and when ...