Collaboration is an important skill for kids to develop but group work can be the bane of a student's experience (as well as parents). Coach shares the value of group work, the approach he has in grading group work (and a way to have groups maintain a high level of production without grades) and also the age old question for teachers, should you choose groups or allow your students to choose groups. Although the focus is on the cooperative learning/project groups in a middle school setting, with some tweaking the situations discussed could be used in the elementary and high school classes as well.
