Let’s face it, forming good cooperative learning teams can be a chore. Not any more! To create effective teams, we must juggle a lot of variables: We want teams of four, but must form some teams of three or five to handle "extra" students. We want two boys and two girls per team, but when we run out of balanced sex teams we want same sex teams so the solo boy or girl are not given too much or too little attention. We want a high, high-medium, low-medium, and low ability student on each team to optimize tutoring and achievement. Creating teams can be a brain-racking, time-consuming process. Now, you simply click a button. TeamTools takes your class info and recommends teams for you. If you like the recommended teams, you save, print, or display them for your class. If you’re not happy with the suggested teams, you push a button to try again, or fine-tune the teams yourself by moving students around. Forming flexible groups for differentiated instruction is also a snap. TeamTools gives you six ways to form teams, six ways to form pairs, and two ways to split the class into two teams. You can use TeamTools for up to 8 different classrooms. Create and manage teams like a pro with TeamTools!
A**R
Kind of disappointed
I am sold on Kagan strategies and I was hoping this tool would help make group creation easier, but it has not. The program seems outdated and is not very user friendly. It has an option to save your groups, but it does not allow you to save groups throughout the year. For example, if I change groups every 6 weeks or so, or even every quarter, by second semester the program will not remember the groups the students were previously in and may put students in the exact same groups. You would think it could be organized by class and the program would automatically put students in different groups each time, but that is not the case .If it had a better "memory" I would have rated this program higher.Next year I may just use the notecard strategy suggested in the Kagan book.
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