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WOULD you like to temper Joe's ag into small schools within a large school
gressive enthusiasm with a growing sen unit. Throughout educational practice,
sitivity to others? Do you want to guide students are being grouped and re
Ruth out of her shell? Have you some grouped, classified and reclassified, cate
classroom routines that might well be gorized and recategorized.
entrusted to adolescents? Are you eager Similarly, within effective classrooms
to meet more effectively the differences students are assembled and reassem
found in any class of students, whether bled, sometimes as a total group of 30
grouped at random or by specific cri or 35, sometimes into smaller groups of
teria? Are you concerned with the scope varying size, sometimes into teams of
of information, understandings, atti two or three. The particular focus of
tudes and appreciations that must some this article is on this flexible classroom
how be dealt with in a school year of grouping that makes for sound learning.
less than 200 days? If your reply to It will deal with specific questions of tlie
these questions is in the affirmative, then what, why, and how of small group
grouping within your classroom can pro \vork.
vide one way of accomplishing each of
your goals. What Are Groups?
The question of grouping is a perva rv
sive, continuing and insistent one. It Whether we*plan for it or not, \ve
covers a multitude of practices and have grouping within our classrooms.
points of view. The issues involved must There are the social groups the cliques
be explored whenever school people that develop their own mysterious ce
have to make decisions regarding the ment of togetherness; the homework-
grouping of students into classes, the sharing groups, with profit and benefit
grouping of courses into various track- to members of the brotherhood; the in
curricula, the grouping of young people terest groups that range from the statis
ticians of the baseball season to the
Louise E. Hock i* Associate Professor of
squealing idolaters of the current Fa
Education, New York University, l\ew York, bian, Darin, or Nelson of the popular
!V. Y. musical world.