While presenting to a great group of dedicated co-teachers from the Lake Hamilton School District in Pearcy Arkansas, we were discussing different ways to set up flexible grouping, During that discussion, Tonya Ross shared her experience with a program she learned about from fellow teacher Debbie Ault.
The program, Lab Partners v2.0, offers teachers a way to pair students, either randomly or by grades, for lab or center activities. Lab Partners is designed by Multimedia Science, a company that writes science software “By teachers, for teachers.”
I often hear teachers say that they have trouble with the process of grouping and pairing students in ways that benefit all learners in their classrooms. This program offers a great solution for this process and makes pairing students both easy, and efficient!
For those of you who find yourself in situations where you can’t install software on your computer, the folks at Multimedia Science built a portable version exclusively for us. This is just one of the great free programs that you can find on our Tech4Teachers USB drive! Check it out today!