Finally, I believe it should be our goal as educators to provide the best teaching practices as possible. I believe that group work is a good idea and it should be used more often in the lower grades. In my supervising teacher's classroom she has her students seated in groups. She has one student that excels in everything in each group. These students help out the others that might be having problems.
Groups help teach students to work as a team.
Another thing that my supervising teacher does is she has a folder in the back of the room that contains extra work the slower students and advanced work for the gifted students. One thing that I have observed is that students learn better by doing things rather than be lectured at. Hands-on activities are great for all students no matter what age. When a students hear things they have a tendency to forget it. When they see something they learn about it and when they actually do it they understand it.