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

by Peter Liljedahl

Reduced Social Stress Despite potential early resistance to visibly random grouping, once it is up and running, many students come to enjoy the elimination of the social stress involved in self-selecting groups. The students who most benefit from this are the students who classify themselves as shy. Researcher How are you liking the random groups? Amanda Love it. I don’t care who I’m with as long as I don’t have to try to get into a group myself. Researcher Why is that? Amanda I’m shy. In social studies the teacher always makes us pick our own groups. I hate that. I hate that feeling of asking if I can join a group and then being told no. I just want to work by myself in that class. But I don’t want to work by myself. It’s just so hard.