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- Flexible grouping stresses the importance of proactive instructional planning to ensure that students regularly and frequently have the opportunity to work with a variety of peers.
- Students should work with peers who have readiness needs similar to their own, and peers with a variety of readiness points
- Students should work with peers who share their particular interests and peers who have interests quite different from their own
- Students should work with peers who want to approach a learning task as the student does and peers who approach learning differently.
- Students should work in randomly grouped peers and peer groupings created by both teacher and student choice.
- Flexible groupings is importance in broadening students’’ awareness and appreciation of their own and others strengths and needs.
- Respectful tasks reminds teachers that every student should regularly encounter tasks that reflect the teacher’s belief that the student is worthy and capable of grappling with and applying important ideas and skills – that the student is a critical thinker who can bring their skills to bear on addressing difficult issues and solving complex problems.
