EFFECTIVE GROUP WORK SKILLS

EFFECTIVE GROUP WORK SKILLS

Active listening:
  • Listening to others without interrupting
  • Being able to summarize others' ideas
  • Incorporating others' ideas into the ongoing discussion
Sharing
  • Sharing materials
  • Taking turns
Giving support:
  • Accepting differences
  • Being friendly
  • Encouraging others
Explaining skills:
  • Conveying understanding an meaning in academic tasks
  • Describing a problem, assignment or goal
  • Identifying steps to be accomplished and reasons for the steps
  • Summarize the work they have done or plan to do
  • Give answers and explain how they got them.

Seeking explanation from others

  • Explaining what they do not understand
  • Asking for help

Leadership skills

  • Planning
  • Demonstrating initiative and enthusiasm
The teacher may teach the use of specific phrases for students to use in summarizing, questioning, or expressing disagreement.

Ways to encourage

  1. Assign the role of summarizer to a student and rotate the role
  2. Have students turn to a partner and explain something; then have the partner “explain back.”
  3. Have each student in the group write one question; then the members of the group answer it.
  4. Conduct role-plays of asking for help and explaining; demonstrate and discuss.
  5. Lead a discussion about how to give a good explanation and how to ask for help
  6. Have students write their group's ideas on a chart and present them to the class.
  7. Have one student give instructions to another to complete a blind task (e.g. make a matching drawing behind a barrier).

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