Description

This resource shows how students who work together and share ideas with one another can deepen their understanding of essential concepts.
Combining effective grouping strategies with other research-based practices, this resource focuses on the power of student collaboration and dialogue in differentiated classrooms. Students can strengthen critical thinking and achievement through three key skills: teaming to learn, sharing knowledge and skills, and integrating and applying learning. The authors offer more than 100 reproducible planning tools to help learners:
- Improve critical thinking
- Generalize and infer
- Integrate content and Identify patterns
- Increase adaptive and analytical reasoning

By utilizing these innovative teaching tools and strategies with their student teams, teachers can prepare all students for deeper thinking and success--both in the classroom and on assessments!