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

by Peter Liljedahl

To counteract this, some teachers have adopted the practice of assigning a role to each student in a group—leader, recorder, timekeeper, resource-getter, encourager, et cetera. But this assignment of roles only serves to exacerbate the aforementioned problem.