This ‘gallery walk’ activity is designed to help students individually reflect on prior experiences with working in groups and to identify shared or differing attitudes about teamwork. At the end of the activity, groups will report back to the class on the trends observed for each statement, and share ideas about how teams can succeed given these attitudes.

This activity is designed to be done in teams, then as a whole class
Modality (see examples of each, below):
- In-person-- on sheets of paper affixed to the wall (or laid on tabletops) and spread throughout the room. Make sure each team has markers that don't bleed through the paper.
- Virtual [synchronous in-class activity]-- on Jamboard to create collaborative gallery pages that can be viewed and annotated by each viewer.
- Virtual [hybrid asynchronous assignment + synchronous activity]-- prior to class meeting, students asynchronously complete an anonymous survey pre-assignment using survey software (like QUaltrics or Google Forms). During the synchronous session, students can be assigned a set of three prompts to discuss their views in more depth, brainstorm solutions, and then summarize their discussion for the class.
~ 30 - 45 minutes

Instructions for the In-person Gallery Walk Activity:

Setup: Ahead of the class meeting, the instructor should create a set of gallery wall pages with approximately 3 statements, each followed by a blank disagree/agree scale following this example:

Gallery pages then should be spread throughout the room, either by affixing them to to walls, or laying them on tabletops. The instructor should choose a number of prompts that suits the size of the class and time available for the activity (more prompts for larger classes or a longer activity period). [For example, six gallery pages work well for a class of 30 divided into teams of 5.]

Class Activity:
1) Teams spend about 3 minutes at each poster and use a marker/sticker to indicate (with an x or by placing a sticker) each individual’s relative agreement/disagreement with phrases along the rating scale based on their prior experiences working in groups (strongly disagree |—————I—————| strongly agree).
2) Once each group reaches their starting gallery poster, they should take 5 minutes to discuss the results on the poster and brainstorm suggestions for ways a team could address concerns related to each prompt ahead of time to foster a successful team environment.

3) Teams present brief summaries of their gallery page and their group discussions back to the class as a whole

Gallery walk prompts
These 20 statements will be distributed evenly across different posters, equal to the total number of student groups, with approximately 3 statements per poster):

- “One student usually makes the decisions in the group.”
- “My grade depends on how much we all learn.”
- “I help my group members with what I am good at.”
- “It is important to me that my group gets the work done on time.”
- “I also learn when I teach the material to my group members.”
- “Everyone’s ideas are needed if we are going to be successful.”
- “My group members respect my opinions.”
- “When I work in a group I am able to share my ideas.”
- “I feel I am a part of what is going on in a group.”
- “When I work in a group I want to be with my friends.”
- “When I work in a group I prefer to choose the students I work with.”
- “When I work in a group I do better quality work.”
- “I enjoy the material more when I work with other students.”
- “My group members help explain things I do not understand.”
- “My work is better organized in a group.”
- “The workload is usually less when I work with other students.”
- “My grades improve when I work with other students.”
- “When I work in a group I end up doing most of the work.”
- “It is difficult to get together outside of class.”
- “When I work with other students the work is divided equally.”

Examples of possible layouts for gallery walk pages:

In-person (large sheet of paper) Virtual Gallery (Jamboard)

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Virtual Survey Examples:

Google Form PollEverywhere (survey, with clickable image option)