500 Tips on Group Learning

✍ Scribed by Race, Philip

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2000;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: 500 tips series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Including sections on creative thinking, problems in groups, feedback mechanisms, dealing with conflict, and gender issues within groups, this volume is designed to aid educators and trainers to create more effective group learning situations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Chapter 1 Learning with others......Page 10
1 Learning about learning......Page 11
2 Group learning means learning by doing......Page 14
3 Group learning means learning through feedback......Page 17
4 Things going wrong can be good group learning......Page 20
5 Group learning means motivation... wanting to learn.........Page 23
6 Behaviours of a good leader......Page 26
7 Group learning includes following......Page 28
8 Benefits of group learning......Page 30
Chapter 2 Getting groups going......Page 36
9 Preparing learners for group work......Page 37
10 Ways of forming groups......Page 39
11 Group size considerations......Page 42
12 Getting groups started......Page 44
13 Icebreakers: some ideas......Page 46
14 Establishing ground rules for groups......Page 50
15 Reducing the bystander effect......Page 53
16 Creating group cohesion......Page 55
17 Setting shared goals......Page 58
Chapter 3 Particular group learning contexts......Page 60
18 Tutorials......Page 61
19 Tutorials for adult distance learners......Page 64
20 Home groups......Page 66
21 Action learning sets......Page 68
22 Tutorless groups......Page 70
23 Be a group member yourself!......Page 73
24 Team teaching......Page 75
Chapter 4 Exercises and processes for groups......Page 78
25 Ringing the changes......Page 79
26 Post-it exercise on how people learn......Page 81
27 Feedback exercise for groups......Page 83
28 Post-its and flipcharts......Page 85
29 Helping learners to write reflections on group learning......Page 88
30 Virtual group work......Page 91
31 A case study......Page 94
Chapter 5 Groups behaving badly?......Page 98
32 Group member behaviours that damage group work......Page 100
33 Group facilitator behaviours that can damage group work......Page 108
34 Institutional factors that can damage group work......Page 119
35 Conflict in group work......Page 123
36 Gender issues in group work......Page 125
Chapter 6 Assessing group learning......Page 128
37 Take the simplest path......Page 129
38 Divide and concur......Page 130
39 Add differentials......Page 131
40 Add contribution marks......Page 133
41 Add more tasks......Page 135
42 Test them orally......Page 136
43 Test them in writing......Page 138
Further Reading......Page 139
Index......Page 142