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Brown Bag Lunch
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Please bring your lunch and join Dr. Ed MacDonald (History) next Thursday,
January 31 from 11:30 am-12:20 pm in the Faculty Lounge in the Main
Building for a brown-bag lunch discussion of best practices in selecting
students for class group work.
We often talk about the pedagogical thinking behind group work, and we
occasionally discuss how best to evaluate individual group members for what
is essentially communal work. But we seldom talk about a related aspect of
group work, the assembling of the groups themselves. How do we select group
members? Randomly? By perceived abilities? Congruent schedules?
Compatibility? What is the optimal size? How big is too big? Let's compare
notes and see if we can come up with some best practice principles.
Questions? Email gwandio@upei.ca at the Faculty Development Office. We
hope to see you next week!