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Subject:Re: your mail From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 18 Nov 1994 11:16:39 -0700
On Thu, 17 Nov 1994, Michael Keene wrote:
> Anyway, the moral of the
> story seems to be that this "group work" needs to be pretty highly
> structured by me and is very labor intensive for me--it's not a way to
> have an easy-going, low energy class meeting. But as you suggest, the
> benefits are considerable.
Not only are the benefits considerable to the students, I find that even
though the group structure may take some effort from me initially, as the
semester goes on, the class actually begins to almost run itself. My time
can be more profitably spent guiding the process. Even time spent on
grading papers is reduced--the groups have already taken care of some of
the kinds of things I used to have to do myself.
