- $29
The Group Work Workshop
- Webinar
Facilitating group work as an educator can be challenging, frustrating, and overwhelming... but it doesn't have to be!
In this workshop, we'll cover a better way to support authentic group work using a strategy called agile project management. It's real world, visible, easy to assess, and helps students collaborate effectively on projects, project based learning experiences, or other forms of group work.
What's Included
In this 90-minute workshop, you'll learn how to facilitate true project management with your students, supporting authentic group work through real world project management techniques.
Video content is project with a slide deck so that you can easily follow along. In addition, we'll work through a project simulation so you can experience this powerful way of working as a student.
You'll also receive a 10+ page PDF Guidebook supporting interactivity within the workshop, plus extras like project planning templates for teacher use, checklists and guides for student use.
What we'll cover:
- The challenges of traditional group work methods
- What agile project management is
- How agile project management supports students in developing 21st century skills
- How agile project management can be used with smaller projects, project based learning experiences, and other group work
- Creating a visible learning system, including options for digital and physical boards
- The structure of a learning sprint
- Experiencing a full project simulation as a student
- How to use multiple opportunities for reflection and iteration to support metacognition
- How agile supports student choice and collaboration
- Applying this type of project management for use with individual projects
- How to assess group projects and student learning
- Preparing for classroom implementation
- Additional resources and documents to support implementation