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Jennifer M. Langer-Osuna; Emma Gargroetzi; Jen Munson; Rosa Chavez – Grantee Submission, 2020
Off-task activity is ubiquitous in classrooms, yet little understood. Building on recent work that illustrates the utility of off-task activity to disrupt relations of power among students, this article explores the potential functions of off-task participation during collaborative mathematics problem-solving. We examined 56 instances of off-task…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Activities, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students
Jennifer M. Langer-Osuna; Jen Munson; Emma Gargroetzi; Immanuel Williams; Rosa Chavez – Grantee Submission, 2020
This paper explores peer interactions in an elementary mathematics classroom (ages 9-10) where the teacher intentionally shared authority with her students and supported them in learning to share authority with one another. Authors examine how students shifted between shared, concentrated, and contested social and intellectual authority relations…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Mathematics Activities
Cabalo, Jessica Villaruz; Newman, Denis; Jaciw, Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2006
Alum Rock Elementary Union School District had an interest in a middle school program being introduced by Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI) called "History Alive!" Supplementary materials from TCI were already in use in many of the classrooms and several of the district administrators were interested in whether the full middle school…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Grade 8, Multiple Intelligences, Faculty Development