Effective Group Work with Young People

✍ Scribed by Jane Westergaard

Publisher: Open University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 184
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This essential, step-by-step guide is ideal for anyone involved in planning, preparing and delivering group work to young people. Written in a practical style, the book contains case study examples and suggests questions and activities to assist learning whether in a school or another learning context. It explains what is meant by ‘Personal Learning and Development’ (PLD) group work and guides the reader through the process from identifying a focus and setting session objectives, to planning activities and evaluating the session outcomes. This book offers practical advice on all aspects of group work with young people. Topics covered include: Learning theory The impact of group dynamics Advice on how to improve facilitation skills How to deal with challenging behaviour This book aims to improve the confidence of those working with young people and ensure that the ‘group experience’ is a positive one for both the practitioner and the group of young people. Effective Group Work with Young People is the essential handbook for all youth support workers including teaching assistants, learning mentors, personal advisers, classroom assistants and careers advisers.

✦ Table of Contents

Effective group work with young people......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
AcknowledgementsI......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
1. The role of youth support workers with groups of young people......Page 10
2. Applying learning theory to personal learning and development group work......Page 25
3. Assessing needs and identifying a topic......Page 40
4. Setting aims and objectives leading to positive outcomes......Page 57
5. Activities to enable personal learning and development......Page 74
6. Getting the structure of sessions right......Page 93
7. Skills to facilitate personal learning and development......Page 109
8. Group dynamics......Page 125
9. Managing challenging behaviour and attitudes......Page 138
10. Evaluating personal learning and development......Page 156
References......Page 174
Index......Page 178

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