Rico Ramos and Brandi Perry

Places students together in pairs to help teach and learn new ideas and information;
one-on-one method.

Builds relationships
Allows students to share ideas not
previously thought of

Students may have teaching

insight a teacher may lack

Fuels individual creativity and

Teacher cannot be with each

partnership to control conversation

Workload may become

unbalanced

Students paired together may not

have a good relationship

initiative

This is good to use when students are not participating much, for a number of
different topics to be discussed, or when there is not enough time for group
discussion.

Have students report on the information they learned, teacher can walk around to
ask questions and offer new ideas to each pair, and have the students rate the
partnership and the information learned.

Create a cube using licorice as individuals, then create a cube using licorice as
paired teams.