ABSTRACT

Schools are not organized with one teacher for each student. Instead, children are gathered together into classrooms and taught in groups. These classrooms are complex places. The teaching and learning that go on in them needs to be orchestrated and structured. The time that students spend in them needs to be filled productively. The diversity, inevitable in the gathering together of children into groups, needs to be accommodated. Teachers organize and manage classrooms of students so that the task of teaching the required curriculum to the required set of children is doable. When good decisions have been made and good strategies have been implemented, all the children in the classroom group achieve.