Small group teaching
Ann Meredith

For the purposes of this material, the term small group teaching refers to teaching and learning activities involving groups of less than twenty students. This might include working with students in seminars, tutorials, workshops and learning sets. Smaller groups can offer the opportunity for students and tutors to work collaboratively, share ideas and also offer valuable social contact for students. They can be an extremely rewarding element of academic practice. Small group sessions can, however, also become frustrating when things don't go to plan and there's a risk that they revert to mini-lectures. A major factor in making small group sessions good learning experiences for all concerned is effective planning, so we have included some materials on this in this section.

Key texts

• Overview
• Practical guidance
  

How to…

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Toolkits
There are lots of ideas in the Economics Networks Handbook for those planning small group teaching sessions.

Case studies

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