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    53 Interesting Things to Do in Your Seminars and Tutorials: Tips and Strategies for Running Really Effective Small Groups
    53 Interesting Things to Do in Your Seminars and Tutorials: Tips and Strategies for Running Really Effective Small Groups
    53 Interesting Things to Do in Your Seminars and Tutorials: Tips and Strategies for Running Really Effective Small Groups
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    53 Interesting Things to Do in Your Seminars and Tutorials: Tips and Strategies for Running Really Effective Small Groups

    By Hannah Strawson, Sue Habeshaw, Trevor Habeshaw and Graham Gibbs

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    Tried and tested tips for running effective small groups in higher education and trainingSeminars and tutorials are staples of higher and professional education courses, but running them well and ensuring that they are effective is not easy. This guide provides practical suggestions for ways to develop one's skills in running small groups. The authors cover all the issues involved in running small groups: ways to begin, student-led seminars, groupwork, student participation and responsibility, evaluation, written material, and expressing feelings. Whether one is new to teaching and eager to develop good strategies, or more experienced and looking to expand an established repertoire, this handy guide offers plenty of rewarding suggestions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllen Unwin
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9781742699646
    53 Interesting Things to Do in Your Seminars and Tutorials: Tips and Strategies for Running Really Effective Small Groups

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      53 Interesting Things to Do in Your Seminars and Tutorials - Hannah Strawson

      53

      Interesting

      Things

      to do in your

      Seminars and

      Tutorials

      Tips and strategies for

      running really effective

      small groups

      Hannah Strawson, Sue Habeshaw,

      Trevor Habeshaw and Graham Gibbs

      First published in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin in 2012 This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2012 by The Professional and Higher Partnership

      Based on an earlier edition by Sue Habeshaw, Graham Gibbs and Trevor Habeshaw, first published in 1984 by Technical and Educational Services Ltd.

      Revised and updated for this edition by Hannah Strawson.

      Copyright © The Professional and Higher Partnership Ltd 2012

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) under the Act.

      Allen & Unwin

      Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, London

      83 Alexander Street

      Crows Nest NSW 2065

      Australia

      Cataloguing-in-Publication details are available

      from the National Library of Australia

      www.trove.nla.gov.au

      ISBN 978 1 74331 158 5

      Printed and bound in Australia by SOS Print + Media Group

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Contents

      Titles in the series

      Foreword

      Preface to the first edition

      Chapter 1 Starting off

      1 Getting to know you

      2 Learning names

      3 A group agreement

      4 Ground rules

      5 Objectives

      6 Orientation

      7 Starting again

      Chapter 2 Student-led seminars

      8 Preparing groups for seminars

      9 Briefing seminar leaders

      10 Supporting seminar leaders

      11 Feedback to seminar leaders

      12 Self and peer evaluation

      Chapter 3 Groupwork

      13 Breaking up the group

      14 Breaking up the task

      15 Sub-groups

      16 Line-up

      17 Pyramid

      18 Debate

      19 Furniture

      20 Rearranging the furniture

      Chapter 4 Encouraging students to participate

      21 Getting students to speak

      22 Rounds

      23 Gifts

      24 Students’ questions

      25 Students’ interests

      26 Thought shower

      27 Buzzer

      28 Open and closed questions

      29 Getting students to stop speaking

      Chapter 5 Encouraging students to take responsibility

      30 Distribute group roles

      31 Working alone

      32 Leave the room

      33 Carry on without me

      34 Self-help groups

      35 A new teacher

      36 Group grades

      Chapter 6 Evaluating the work of the group

      37 Group self-monitoring

      38 Observers

      39 Checking it out

      40 Record your tutorial

      41 Consulting the group

      Chapter 7 Written material

      42 Display

      43 Group charts

      44 Students’ notes

      45 Handouts

      46 Writing

      47 Open-book tutorials

      48 Essay preparation

      49 Coursework feedback

      Chapter 8 Expressing feelings

      50 What’s on top

      51 Self disclosure

      52 Praise and encouragement

      53 Concluding

      Titles in the series

      53 Interesting Things to do in your Lectures

      53 Interesting Things to do in your Seminars and Tutorials

      53 Interesting Ways of Helping your Students to Study

      Foreword

      The original edition of 53 interesting things to do in your seminars and tutorials was published in a series called ‘Interesting ways to teach’. It was written by Sue Habeshaw, Graham Gibbs and Trevor Habeshaw – all of them experienced teachers – and published by their company, Technical and Educational Services. The book proved popular amongst peers in post-compulsory education and ran to several editions.

      Now that the original authors have retired from teaching, we are very pleased to have acquired from them the rights to this and other titles from that series. Much of the original material remains fresh and helpful. The text has, however, been revised and updated where appropriate. This task has been performed by Hannah Strawson. In two places (items 35 and 49), the original text has been replaced wholesale.

      Anthony Haynes & Karen Haynes

      The Professional and Higher Partnership Ltd

      Preface to the first edition

      This is the second of a series of books, each of which suggests practical ways of going about various aspects of teaching. All the ideas we offer have worked for us or for our colleagues: they are all tried and tested ways of doing things. You are probably familiar with some of them already. While there are sound theoretical justifications for these methods (and occasionally even empirical evidence in their support), they are offered here simply as ideas worth trying for yourself. We find them rewarding to use. We hope that you find some of them equally rewarding.

      This book is not meant to be read from start to finish, but rather to be dipped into. Although the suggestions are grouped under headings, and are cross-referenced, they are written so that each makes sense on its own. Each one follows

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