1. Learning to Work in Small Groups has Become an Essential Survival Skill
2. It is Easier to Provide More Frequent Feedback to Teams
3. It Provides a Place Where You Can Freely Express Reactions to the Material We Are Studying
4. It is Impossible to Stay Focused on a Lecture for 75 Minutes
5. Team Work Produces Redundancy in Presentation of Course Material
6. Different Learning Styles Require A Variety of Approaches to the Material
7. It Gives You a Safe Place to Try Out Ideas Before Your Express Them in Whole Class Discussions or in Your Written Work
8. Collectively Your Team May Produce Ways of Explaining the Material to Each Other that are Clearer to You than Mine.
9. Explaining Material to Others is the Best Way to Come to Understand It Yourself
10. It Allows Us to Make Maximum Use of the Diversity of Experiences, Ways of Thinking, Values, and Knowledge that You as a Group have Brought to this Class
