Mary Spreitzer’s Updates

  • Update 5: Project/Problem-Based Learning

    At one of my previous places of employment, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, as a state institution we were charged with two main purposes:

    The outreach responsibility is exercised through several means and, for many years, the flags...More

  • Update 3: The Jigsaw Classroom

    The jigsaw classroom is a research-based cooperative learning technique invented and developed in the early 1970s by Elliot Aronson and some of his graduate students at the University of Texas out of what he describes as “an absolute necessity” to h...More