Dear Joe:
Given the number of participants listed for the Gropesarching workshop, I expect you won’t be taking the time to read prepared bios for the panelists. Just in case, though, I’ve attached a two-sentence statement of who I am.
What do you have in mind for this session? Do we need to prepare anything in advance?
Best,
Jim LeBlanc
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Dear Jim,
thanks very much for your bio–i would indeed like to have a couple of sentences on everyone’s background.
i imagine this as a very free-flowing and open discussion. i will ask each person to speak for, say, 5 minutes on their experience in Wake groups. The object of the exercise is to search out and formulate the attributes that make for a successful group, and, of course, to wonder just what we should avoid. I’d hope that the results would provide some new thinking for those of us already in groups and guidelines for those who haven’t yet braved setting up one in their own institute or program.
There are a series of rather obvious areas we can traverse in search of the successful formula–asking the usual when’s, where’s and how’s.
why do a good number of groups flounder?
what are the optimum numbers in any group?
what reading strategies work best?
with what sections might a new group begin?
what’s the optimum frequency of meetings?
can technology help or hinder a group’s cohesion?
what ancillary texts (if any) contribute to the exercise?
we could–and, i hope, will–go on and on with such questions. i’d love to hear your thoughts.
best
Joe
Comment by jgfnugent — May 23, 2007 @ 4:49 pm |