Strategies for Facilitating Group Activities

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Strategies for Facilitating Group Activities

The following are just a few strategies that instructors have found useful. You will discover other methods for employing group work that best match your own teaching style and your students' needs.

Assign each group member a role

Give each group the same task

Give each group a separate task

Have groups practice writing collaboratively

Ask groups to role play