ABSTRACT
This chapter describes challenges of group instruction and a possible solution. It describes how to implement choral responding to increase active student engagement and learning. The chapter describes how to use response cards to increase active student engagement and learning. The positive correlation between active student engagement and academic achievement is one of the most well established and robust findings in all of educational research. Tactics that promote active student engagement are valuable not only because of the practice they afford students but also because of the feedback they provide to teachers. Group instruction presents teachers with five major tasks: maintain students' attention, give each student sufficient opportunities to respond, provide feedback for students' responses, monitor students' learning, and prevent and address disruptive behavior. Meeting the challenges posed by group instruction is so difficult that when students just pay attention and do not misbehave, a lesson may be considered a success.
