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In the beginning of each school year I spend some time on working together. First and foremost in the lesson is that each student should do their share. That usually extends into everyone has something to offer to the group because we all have different life experiences.  I really try to push the idea home that no one person is smarter than the others and spend quite a bit of time giving “wait time” for questions. I am always amazed how often one student in the group will grasp a concept and will be right on the mark but their peers will not listen. I usually will stand with the students at that point and say, “Are you listening to your lab partners?” I never say that the partner is correct. Some students catch on fairly quickly others take a while but eventually they start to listen and are quite successful. I enjoyed this mornings ambiguous figures and decided how useful the visual aids will be for my students. I have started developing a whole new lesson plan to incorporate the ambiguous figures section into the beginning of the year. Afterwards, I also have decided to take a different image each time we do a lab or group work and displaying it as a warm up board to remind students that we all have different ways of looking that can all be correct. Hopefully the warm ups will remind them most so I have to less ;-).