According to Trumbull & Rothstein-Fisch (2008), “Individualism encourages independence and achievement while collectivism emphasizes interdependence on the family and groups’ well-being. This struck me as I read the article because it seems that we need a balance of both for either to work effectively. Trumbull & Rothstein-Fish (2008), also state, “no culture or individual is completely individualistic or collectivistic”. Individualism-collectivism is a term that I have been aware of but had not analyzed it in terms of my teaching style. “This framework describes idealized models of two cultural value systems that implicitly shape people’s worldviews and parents’ developmental goals for their children” (Trumbull and Rothstein-Fisch, 2008). In my family’s background, things were modeled and then it was expected that I achieve solely by my own means. I could be shown how to do something or it could be explained to me however, the actually doing had to be totally me. I took this perspective when I attended college which pushed me toward the collectivistic view which I later applied in my classroom. Over my years of teaching I have learned many things that the textbooks did not teach but I learned by doing. One of the things that I learned through observation was that when students were allowed to work with a partner either by my selection or of their choice, students often grasped the concept or skill. When I have directed students to model their understanding of a concept or skill independently, students who had not mastered the concept or skill showed signs of stress and were not able to complete the assigned task. Similarly in Mrs. Blaine’s activity, she divided her class into two groups. Only one student from each group was allowed to answer the same math problem without the help from their peers. Isaac noted that Mrs. Blaine’s students showed “signs of great