group work in education

Offers practical tips where teachers and administrators can work together to provide a positive learning environment for students and includes sample standards-based curriculum units for different content areas and grade levels, discussion questions, and assessment design tools.

A guide to facilitating the discussion of the novel by Jerry Spinelli by students in grades four through eight offers suggestions for identifying themes, analyzing vocabulary, and responding to the text.

Provides a workbook for planning how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.