GrouPower - Touchstone Private

Sandhya and Kavita of The Teacher Foundation conducted this fourth workshop of Touchstone series for the teachers of Ideal Jawa Rotary School, Pragathi Vidya Kendra and Rotary Midtown Academy on January 10th, 2009. Teachers had the hands on experience of group work in this workshop.

The teachers discussed the benefits of group work for students and teachers. They learnt about Spencer Kagan's elements of group development and Tuckman's research on stages of group work. They used their creative juices to come up with an advertisement for a bottle of health drink.

In the course of the day the teachers learnt a number of strategies for group work including but not limited to fishbowl, carousing, think-pair-share and snowbowling.

We hope to see the teachers making an attempt to use group work when we go for the next round of school based support.

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