Scenario Response No. 7

I don't like to keep students in their working groups for such a long time. When May eventually roles around we are swamped with test prep, test season, and to battle the end of the year slump my students work on their individualized units based on their self selected topics and I go through and high light the different options within a packet that would best suit the students needs based on their individual data. As for informal working groups during class time when not doing the aforementioned activities, this is the time that I fully challenge students by grouping them according to the group role I have witnessed them taking all year and watching the magic happen as they have to communicate clearly and adapt to new group norms; its great as I love to do this during whole class work sessions to see the amazing things that the groups can produce. It can be a little rocky at first as all the self proclaimed leaders trying to figure out how to combat that, all the reserved ones that always attempt to take on a 'yes-man' status are typically quiet at the start but then they love it as each one is fully getting the chance to come up and tweak their own opinions, and so on.