Does the student:

• Consistently work alone or with others?
• Try to help others? In what ways?
• Succeed in asking for and getting needed help? From whom?
• Stick to the task or become easily distracted?
• Become actively involved in the problem?

Does the student individually:

• Try to explain organizational and mathematical ideas?
• Support arguments with evidence?
• Consider feedback seriously and effectively use the suggestions and ideas?
• Attempt to convince others that the student’s own thinking is relevant?

Does the student:

• Talk for self-clarification and to communicate to others?
• Comfortably fill the role of both “talker” and “listener”?
• Have confidence to make a report to the whole class?
• Capably represent a group consensus as well as the student’s own ideas?
• Synthesize and summarize both the student’s own and the group’s thinking?

Does the group:

• Divide the task among members?
• Agree on a plan or structure for tackling the task?
• Take time to ensure that all group members understand the task?
• Use group time in a productive way?
• Provide support for each member?
• Think about recording or documenting group work?
• Allow for the development of leadership?