ABSTRACT
When you’ve thought through the suggestions included in this chapter (and tried out the most relevant ones) you should be better able to:
● confront some of the behaviours (student ones and tutor ones) which can reduce the success of small-group work;
● decide the optimum size of student groups for particular collaborative tasks you set; ● choose the best way to establish the group membership for your purposes; ● select from a range of processes such as rounds, buzz-groups, syndicates, snowballing, fish-
bowls, crossovers, brainstorming and pair-dialogues, to help your students to learn productively and actively in small-group environments.
