KQED News Mind/Shift – Katrina Schwartz
“Monique Maynard has been teaching for 17 years and prides herself on creating a dynamic classroom culture where students work together in groups. She teaches at West Warwick High School in Rhode Island. When she taught precalculus she spent very little time at the front of the room, preferring to give students tasks to work on together and then circulating to listen and help. But when her principal asked her to switch to teaching freshmen algebra three years ago, it was “a culture shock.” Within the first week of teaching freshmen, she had scrapped the groups and had all the students in rows.” (more)