Video: Making group work a win for your students

Practical tips on supporting students and modeling productive 21st-century learning.


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Video Description: Collaboration is essential to students’ learning. Having kids work together promotes cooperation, builds social-emotional skills, and gets them engaged in active learning. Group work, on the other hand, tends to come with challenges. Some students feel like they do all the work, others feel left out, motivation wanes, and assignments seem to get cobbled together. So, what makes for better group work? Learn more about managing group work in our collection, Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work.

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