Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

by Peter Liljedahl

In essence, no matter how strategic a teacher is in their groupings, when there is a mismatch between their goals and students’ individual goals, it means some students will be unhappy and will disengage. This disengagement is antithetical to a thinking classroom.