Please bring your lunch and join Dr. Ed MacDonald (History) next Thursday, January 31 from 11:30 am-12:20 pm in the Faculty Lounge in the Main Building for a brown-bag lunch discussion of best practices in selecting students for class group work. We often talk about the pedagogical thinking behind group work, and we occasionally discuss how best to evaluate individual group members for what is essentially communal work. But we seldom talk about a related aspect of group work, the assembling of the groups themselves. How do we select group members? Randomly? By perceived abilities? Congruent schedules? Compatibility? What is the optimal size? How big is too big? Let's compare notes and see if we can come up with some best practice principles. Questions? Email gwandio@upei.ca at the Faculty Development Office. We hope to see you next week!