Karen Vaites (@karenvaites): "@Ben Zulauf confronts the tension between the research on small groups (“they work!”) with the reality that a small group for some students means less teacher time for all of the other students. It’s all tradeoffs, folks."

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Ben Zulauf confronts the tension between the research on small groups (“they work!”) with the reality that a small group for some students means less teacher time for all of the other students.

It’s all tradeoffs, folks.

Unsurprisingly, the evidence is generally supportive of teaching students in small groups (e.g. Hall & Burns, 2018). This makes sense. Putting students into small groups allows teachers to intensify instruction while providing more targeted feedback to individual students. But the question that classroom teachers face is: Does teaching students in small groups for a part of the literacy block lead to more learning than teaching students in whole group for the entire duration of the literacy block?

Ben Zulauf

Feb 25

8:19 PM

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