Successful Group Work: 13 Activities to Teach Teamwork Skills
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (607 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RWB2ZQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 401 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has a BA from York University, an M.Ed from Brock University, an MA from the University of Toronto, and an OCELT qualification. About the Author Patrice Palmer has been an ESL teacher for 20 years teaching in Hong Kong and her native Canada. She also regularly presents both online and in person around the world and helps others achieve their dream as a teacherpreneur! . She now works as a teacherpreneur, writing books, blogging on different ESL/EFL websites, and developing online courses
With this book, you will teach students: why teamwork is important how to work well in groups how to resolve conflicts how to self-reflect on their own work How to avoid the pitfalls of group work, and get the most out of working together.. Many of the activities are 20-30 minutes long, so you can easily fit them into your class schedule. And most are no-prep or low prep. Because Successful Group Work Doesn’t Just Happen!When you tell your students to work in groups, what happens? One or two students takes over all the work? One or two students coast, doing the bare minimum? They divide the work into equal parts and do it all individually, defeating the whole point of a group task? Students say they didn’t think it was real work, because it was a group project? Successful Group Work is a complete course of 13 lessons that you can do with students before you start group work. Or choose the activities that reflect the areas your students need the most work in
Patrice Palmer has been an ESL teacher for 20 years teaching in Hong Kong and her native Canada. She has a BA from York University, an M.Ed from Brock University, an MA from the University of Toronto, and an OCELT qualification. She now works as a teacherpreneur, writing books, blogging on different ESL/EFL websites, and developing online courses. She also regularly presents both online and in pers