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A Science Teacher Shares Her Experience with EnTeam Games Renee Ganley has been teaching for over 10 years, and has just completed her sixth year as a science teacher at Busch Middle School in St. Louis. She first learned about the EnTeam approach to cooperative learning when Ted Wohlfarth ran a workshop for staff at [...]

By Nancy Chen|2016-11-06T10:26:37-06:00June 30th, 2014|Interviews, Middle School|0 Comments

Apple pi in my eye

By Ted Wohlfarth Kids love to correct adults. A group of middle school students gleefully told me I was wrong when I said the number pi = 3.1416. And I was impressed that they could recite the value of pi to 7 decimal places. The value of pi came up because we were comparing [...]

By Dawn Arteaga|2016-11-06T10:26:37-06:00January 20th, 2012|Applying School to Life, Higher Order Thinking, Homepage, Middle School|0 Comments