Small Group Teaching SGT

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Small Group Teaching (SGT)
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Learning objectives for SGT

• List the most important goals of SGT
• List the most important physical and
  psychological conditions for SGT
• List the facilitator skills needed for SGT
• Use three different SGT techniques
• Appreciate the benefits of active learning

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Goals of small group teaching

• Getting students to talk and think
• Deep level understanding
• Active, face-to-face participation
• Communication skills
• listening
• explaining
• questioning
• responding
• Intellectual and professional competencies
• Personal growth

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Some conditions for effective small groups

• Optimum group size
• Optimum physical arrangement and conditions
• Group are warmed up
• Members accept ground rules
• Clear objectives
• Group has common sense of direction and purpose
• Members feel responsible for each other and the
  group
• Group monitors its own progress
• Facilitator has necessary skills

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Self-esteem Self-actualisation Feeling
successful Receiving approval of others
Love belonging Feeling wanted and accepted
Safety shelter Safe from harm in a structured
environment with low anxiety
Physical Comfort requirements Air, water, food
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Facilitator skills

• Appropriate attitude to small group teaching
• Preparing
• Organising and structuring
• Controlling
• Questioning
• Listening
• Explaining
• Summarising

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Small Group Teaching has two main components
both are important

• Content
• The Scenario
• The Problem
• The Context
• The Knowledge
• The Skills
• The Attitudes

• Process
• Talking
• Dialogue
• Questioning
• Collaboration
• Activity
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills

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Learning objectives for SGT

• List the most important goals of SGT
• List the most important physical and
  psychological conditions for SGT
• List the facilitator skills needed for SGT
• Use three different SGT techniques