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How would you determine the makeup of cooperative groups? What small group skills are important to teach? Why?

Why is group processing important for success? Explain your answer. How would you defend cooperative learning to a parent who is against group work?

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1. In determining how my group sizes are formed I try to put groups in a few different arrangements. Sometimes, I determine my grouping completely randomly so students know that it's purely by chance and that no one individual is being shown any favoritism or prejudice. More often ,however, when I've gotten to know my students a bit more and I know which individuals can and cannot work well on cooperative learning tasks, I frequently stratify the groups by determining the size group I want to have. Let;s say for ...

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