This past week has been relatively uneventful in the classroom. The disruption of state testing is over, and it has been good to get back to covering new material. I think the students are relieved to be finished with testing as well, and they have been well behaved all week.
I have been experimenting with incorporating group work into my lessons this week, and I have noticed that it can be challenging logistically if it is not a regular thing. I feel like it would take too much time to have students change their seating arrangement if it is not something they are used to doing on an everyday basis - this would involve showing them their new locations, how to arrange the desks, etc. Instead, I am forming them into groups based around their current seating positions - they simply turn to their neighbors and work in groups of 3 or 4. This is not ideal, in that the group assignments are essentially random, and if I start using group work on a regular basis I feel like I would need to develop a system for assigning groups that took into account things like math ability and language proficiency for my EL students.
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