  The evolution of science education is a dynamic process driven by advances in
pedagogy, technology, and especially, our understanding of how students learn.
Educators are exploring innovative teaching and learning methodologies such as
active learning, incorporated technology, interdisciplinary approach, flipped
classrooms, personalized teaching, and many more. The goal of all these
evolving methodologies is to empower students with not only a strong foundation
in scientific knowledge but also with the skills and mindset required to thrive
in the future world. By adopting these innovative approaches, educators can
help students become effective problem solvers, critical thinkers, and life
learning citizens. Our focus is redesigning individual student learning
activities into group learning activities that will benefit various ways of
education by building each others support, connection, and communication.
Unloading individual homework and loading in-class group work during a
synchronous classroom setting will benefit all levels of learnings effectively.
Assigning most of the classwork to be completed during class time has potential
benefits since students are more likely to be engaged and focused individually
and jointly by sharing and communicating subject matter effectively. We are
discussing how to facilitate the group work effectively by creating group
assignments for personalized classrooms, setting specific rules and class
ethics to follow for the best learning practice, imposing a list of roles to
each group member, introducing a list of ground rules related to justice,
equity, and diversity inclusion (JDEI) within the group. The students
performances, progress and effectiveness are analyzed and compared.
