Group Work

Does anyone have any great (not just good--great!) handouts for students on HOW to work in groups? I'm going to do a quick search on the internet now. Otherwise, I'll just cobble something together. Maybe that's something we could talk about at our next meeting: what are our expectations for students working in their groups. What do you do to prepare your students for group work?

OK--I'm back. Here's a couple of links I found. (Yes, you could have Googled this yourself):

• http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/learning/groups.html (good on rules and structure but doesn't mention roles)
• Here's a handout that talks about roles. Others at this site talk about the affective factor in group work (nice and "touchy/feely"): http://bokcenter.harvard.edu/docs/wigstudents5.html (Here's the link to the site index: http://bokcenter.harvard.edu/docs/wigintro.html)
  
• http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html (instructions for teachers, not a student handout--but some good stuff)

But surely we have something ready made at Highline. This is one of the goals for the FLC that we talked about at the first meeting--to act as a clearinghouse for these kinds of materials.