Teamwork makes the dream work: facilitating group work in your classroom
January 23, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
Teaching Excellence Building (TEB), Room 201
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Much of our learning happens through social interactions. Foster collaboration in your classroom by designing and facilitating group work that is structured, equitable, and engaging. Group work can help build communication skills, encourages accountability, and promotes deeper learning as students are tasked with retrieving and explaining information. In this workshop we will discuss why group work is a critical strategy for student learning, explore ways to manage and direct group dynamics, and develop ways to promote students participating and working together with their peers.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Reflect on experiences with group work in their own learning and teaching.
- Identify strategies for effectively structuring and facilitating group work.
- Implement various group work activities into their own teaching.
EVENT FORMAT: This workshop will be held on-campus, in-person in room 201 in the Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) located on 924 S. Morgan Street.
EVENT LEAD: Lauren Woods, lmwoods@uic.edu
EVENT CO-FACILITATOR: Emily Potratz, epotra2@uic.edu
Inclusion and Accessibility Information: CATE is committed to making events accessible. CATE’s in-person events typically involve a combination of presentation and discussion-based activities. We welcome ASL interpreters, note-takers, and accompanying assistants to in-person CATE events. The TEB is wheelchair accessible with an elevator to the second floor space. The TEB space is equipped with fixed-height tables that are moveable and can be reconfigured. There are single-occupancy, all-gender, accessible bathrooms on the second and basement levels of TEB. If you have any accessibility questions, requests, or to coordinate accommodations, please contact the CATE team at teaching@uic.edu.
Date posted
Nov 26, 2024
Date updated
Nov 26, 2024