More hands on

Throughout my practicum I bet we've done group work 80% of the time. It seems like a lot to me, but I'm only there two days per week. I'd love to watch more a leceture type scenario to pick up ideas for future teaching experiences in his class. This past week the kids took a quiz on tuesday which is really boring for me, all though i did get to grade them which is eye-opening for me. Thursday the kids got back into groups and created a museum on their assigned sections in the book. It's really neat to watch how creative the groups can be. the only problem I've seen is that he lets the kids pick their groups which is tough on classroom management. Plus, there is always "the group" who gets absolutely nothing accomplished in a 40 minute period. Hopefully next week is more eventful, which it should be because it's my turn to teach!!!