Week 6: Collaboration Vs Individualization

I have come across many posts in the discussion thread preaching cooperative work and I do share the same attitude towards collabortaion regardless of the associated students agitation and "disorder". Yet I believe collaboration oughtn’t to overwhelm individualization as it was explained in the article  By Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw “Teaching large classes”Despite the sincere recommendations made by teachers to familiarize their students with collaboration and group work, there still remains a responsibility to assume regarding every single student in the group as an independent individual whose needs, styles, opinions and queries have to be fully taken care of. I liked and found very insightful the couple of suggestions mentioned in the article as to how to individualize one’s classroom :“Professors can make their classes feel more personal by coming to class early enough to talk personally to students, moving around the room while they lecture, staying after class to answer questions, holding office hours, and scheduling informal meetings outside the office where students can ask questions.”