Miguel, what you might call groups or teams or even cohorts, we call
Communities of Mutual Support and Encouragement, "communities" for short.
I used to call them Triads, but after a few years I decided that term
sounded so clinical and structural. Each community is a cluster of three
students, a number I have decided upon after much experimentation with
other size groups. In brief, all work in the class is done in and by these
communities on the principle of "one for all and all for one." I ask that
the members of the communities be strangers to each other at the formation
of the community in order that there is a minimal possibility of "ganging
up" and because most students when they leave college will enter a work
place usually filled with strangers to them. Part of my educational
philosophy is that students should have a social experience in the
classroom. They rarely have the opportunity to develop people and
communication skills they so sorely need in the workplace, and they seldom
get to realize and learn how to work with and depend on and be depended on
by other people.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier www.therandomthoughts.com
Department of History www.halcyon.com/arborhts/louis.html
Valdosta State University
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