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 Transcript: Implementing Cooperative Learning "Facilitating in the Classroom"
           

I always just move from group to group and stick my head into whatever is going on at each table or each workstation and see what the process is. Sometimes it's important to be there and correct the process, give a little nudge in the right direction, if the team is not using good group processes. If someone is domineering, you may need to sort of nudge the person who is supposed to be responsible for making sure everyone is included, and saying, "You have to make sure everybody gets a say in this." And also, if you're not there, you don't know what's going on. So you really have to be aware of how things are working. You've designed these structures [that] you've given to the students, and now I think being there and experiencing what the students are experiencing is very important. So you can't just disengage. It feels awkward at first. You feel like a fifth wheel or that you really don't have a role. But remember-I forget which of the gurus it was who said this-but "You're a guide on the side; you're not the sage on the stage." But the guide on the side has got to know what's going on, and so being there with the groups as they're working and seeing what's happening is very important.

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