Appendix 2

Group work activities for each module

The instructions in this section are designed to be read alongside the corresponding individual activity within the online module. For example, the following instructions for individual work come from Activity 2 in the Evidence Planning module:

Identify the tacit assumptions in the following statements:

  1. There’s nothing wrong with using a mobile phone during church, other people do it all the time.
  2. Stealing from the bank isn’t as bad as stealing from a real person.
  3. Marking students at a fail grade will damage their confidence, therefore we shouldn’t fail students.
  4. I know that boy and girl are dating because I saw them holding hands.
  5. He didn’t say anything when I asked, so it must be that he doesn’t know.
  6. People are not engaging with our website so it must be that they don’t know where to find it.

The group work suggestion draws on this activity, and therefore only makes sense when you reference it back to the module:

You could ask the group to break into pairs to work through these sentences and then present and discuss their answers during plenary. If you want to spend more time on this activity, then ask students to come up with their own sentences to illustrate tacit assumption. It is likely that some of them won’t be quite right, so you’ll need to allow plenty of time for thinking, feedback and discussion.

We have set out the instructions this way because the activities – whether individual or group – are designed to sit at specific points in the flow of learning in order to test understanding and/or help students engage with particular ideas or concepts. Group activities should not be considered in isolation from the text!

Appendix 1

Module title: Building Partnerships Map