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Ade Meda Revina
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Small Group and Large Group
SMALL GROUP
Any teaching and learning occasion with between 2 and 20 participants
Where students are encouraged to take responsibility – along with tutors – for their own learning
It can take place online
Types of small group work activities
Numerous methods for teaching small
groups
Well known: Tutorials,
Laboratories and Problem-Solving Class
Q – What small group teaching do
you have experience of?
Potential Difficulties
• Students don’t prepare beforehand• Students don’t engage• One person dominates (either student or tutor)• Students want to be given the solution rather
than discussing the problem• High cost method due to small numbers• Where more tutors involved – parity is
important• Fear of losing control of the classroom
people have to take part
develop verbal skills / develop
key skills
get to know the students and them
you / establish closer contact with
academic staff
see the way you view problems
Potential Benefits
Effective Small Group Teaching
• Does not happen by chance!• Helping to ensure effective small group teaching.
1. Planning the session2. Preparing the students for working in groups3. Agreeing ground rules4. Significance of the setting5. Tutor facilitating skills
Significance of the setting
Physical arrangements have a powerful effect on
interaction
Tutor Facilitating Skills
Skills in listening, asking and answering questions, and
responding are paramount in small group settings.
1. Listening•What? content• How? tone, feelings•When? time, priority•Where? place, environment
2. Questioning• Prepare• Open ended• How• Body language
Tutor Facilitating Skills
3.Responding
• Body language• Direct response or use group to answer?• Shape rather than reject contributions
LARGE GROUP
Using Large Groups in Classes
• Strategies that can work: • Well-defined activities• Bring the class together for
discussion and/or clarification at about15 min. intervals
• Group products• Look for signs of behaviors that
undermine group function• Use undergraduate (peer) group
facilitators
Purpose:
Committed to it based on research and
observation
Learn better when actively involved
Peer instruction, teaching each other
Learn more fully and with less effort
Learn in context
• List 5 behaviors or actions that can undermine good group Function.
• Report out in 5 minutes.
Planning for Large Group
• Big Ideas
• Units of Study
• Anchor Texts
• Storytelling, • singing, music
Example:• A variety of genres lend themselves to
Readers Theater. Many are available on Teachers Pay Teachers.
• Bring your Thinking Maps or graphic organizers to life.
– Have children hold the boxes and arrows printed on paper to make a flow map.
– The tallest child can be the main idea of a tree map. Shorter children can be the supporting ideas. Others can kneel or sit for the specific details.
Final aims:
Functional groups are ones in which
members work effectively to enhance
their own and each other’s learning
Thank you