When Less Is More: Discovering Student Points of Need with Small Group Conversation

As any classroom teacher knows, time is a valuable commodity. It’s always a struggle to squeeze every last drop of the instructional time we have with students and still provide meaningful learning experiences. One of our English teachers, Kim Cooney, recognized she needed a way to negotiate two major class activities with her 10th grade students:

She needed to have small seminar discussions with students. She needed for students to have some instruction on EasyBib and research databases fo...