21st Century Learning and Teaching

To ensure productive group work, teachers must communicate expectations, strategically build groups, structure activities, scaffold work with a supportive classroom culture, and stress individual accountability.

Read also the book: 

 5 Minds For The Future (Howard GARDNER)  to understand what the world needs for abilities from students in 21st Century… 

- The Disciplinary Mind: the mastery of major schools of thought, including science, mathematics, and history, and of at least one professional craft.

- The Synthesizing Mind: the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others.

- The Creating Mind: the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena.

- The Respectful Mind: awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups.

- The Ethical Mind: fulfillment of one’s responsibilities as a worker and as a citizen.

I have given courses to adult people for 10 years and I used Group-Working, Group-Learning for ICT-Courses! The learners who had the BEST knowledge helped the others and an exchange of knowledge was made, so the whole group's knowledge became BETTER and ALL had big fun while learning! I observed it while being the coach where I intervened ONLY when I saw the opportunity to do so and/or when there was something new to teach... 96% success, who can do better ;)