Larry Ferlazzo is an English and social studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif.
(This is the first post in a four-part series.)
The new question-of-the-week is:
What are your recommendations for how best to set up and organize small groups in classroom instruction?
Many teachers find that well-organized student small-group work facilitates learning and effective classroom management.
It’s the “well-organized” part that can trip many of us up, though.
This four-part series will share “tried-and-true” strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of this kind of instruction.
Today, Valentina Gonzalez, Olivia Montero Petraglia, Jenny Vo, and Jennifer Mitchell provide their suggestions.
You might also be interested in a previous series on small-group instruction , as well as Best Posts On The Basics Of Small Groups In The Classroom .
