Group Process Techniques 2
Action Lists
Goal: Generate ideas for action
Process:
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Participants keep a list of ideas, and actions that will help them apply the ideas they are discussing.
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Participants determine a time when they will try each idea.
Brainstorming
Goal: Quickly generate many ideas in response to a given question or issue
Process: Four methods of brainstorming are described below:
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Freewheeling
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Group members call out their ideas.
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A scribe writes down the exact words of each participant.
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Carousel
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Write a series of questions or topics on the issue on separate sheets of paper.
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Divide participants into small groups (3–5) and have each group stand in front of a sheet of
paper.
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Each group spends 2–3 minutes generating ideas and recording them on the paper.
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Each group moves to the next spot where they read the ideas and add additional ones.
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Continue the cycle until all groups have been in all locations.
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Participants take a Gallery Walk to read all posted ideas.
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These techniques have been reprinted and adapted from three sources: (1) Learning through technology: Study
group framework and profile tool, 1996, Illinois State Board of Education and NCREL; (2) Peggy A. Sharp,
Robert Garmston, & Bruce Wellman, “Premier facilitation for learning organization,” NSDC
Preconference Session, December 10–12, 1994; and (3) Facilitating change in science and mathematics
education: A toolkit for professional developers and alternative assessment toolkit, NCREL.
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