Fires in the Bathroom: Chapter 5

Chapter 5 gives insight on how teachers can appeal to individual students as well as managing group work. This can be tricky, but doing things such as keeping an eye on every group, asking often for personal insight, and assigning clear group roles and checking to make sure everyone is on task often. Teachers sometimes steer away from group work because it creates divides in the class and it is too much work to monitor different groups. However, with insight provided by students, it gives answers to many of the questions teachers have about group work.

During group work teachers assign groups, and sometimes it is difficult for students to meet together outside of the classroom. Students offer a suggestion: let us work together. Many teacher shy away from this, but students who already know each other will more likely meet up and do the assignment instead of one person pulling all the weight. They produce a better product because they know each other and are already comfortable with themselves in the group, as well as the content.