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December 1, 2012

I continue to learn how to teach by the teaching itself.  The students have enjoyed doing team work in their tests, group tests if you will.

This is fine and good, it is an important thing to learn how to negotiate, listen and create documents of substance with others.  As I watched how the four different teams worked on their final today I realized that it is also important to make a balance with individual work.

There is at least one individual, perhaps more, than is so very quiet in the class that team work is simply not the best vehicle for him to tested with or learn from.  He needs to draw from his own information and will not do that willingly in a group.

I remember that there are oral learners, visual learners, kinesthetic learners, musical, spatial, etc.  I try to meet at least most of those needs at times during the semester.  I must now remember to balance the needs of the ultra quiet with the abilities of those who enjoy the group work.

Blessings,

Debbie