Edinburgh Napier University

  This Short Guide brings together ideas, hints and tips on teaching small groups. Aimed at postgraduates who teach and those new to teaching, the guide looks at the benefits and challenges of small group teaching and considers four potentially tricky situations that could arise in teaching small groups and how you might deal with them. Small group teaching environments are generally more informal and enable more discussion and interaction compared to lectures. Depending on the institution, small group teaching may also be referred to as tutorials, seminars or workshops. In all these cases the teacher’s role tends to be that of facilitator rather than presenter.