Team Organization

Students will be assigned in teams of three or four. The teams should share and distribute responsibility. Each team has a captain, recorder, spkesperson and a refelector. The captain has the following tasks:

• Keep the process enjoyable and rewarding for team members.
• Make sure each memeber has a role and is performing within that role.
• Ensure that all team members can articulate what has been learned.
• Manage time, stress and conflict.
• Control the process and its pacing; keep members focused.
• Contribute to the group and activity learn.
• Maintain accountability for the overall performance of the team.

• Observe performance, interactions, and the dynamics among team members.
• Be agood litener and observer.
• Analyze and record strengths, improvements, and insights into a refelctor's Journal
• Maintain accountability for the overall quality of the refelctror's journal
• Report from refelctor's journal, rephrasing evaluations positively and constructively
• Interven with observations about the process and suggest strategies for change.
• Remind the Team Leader of his her duties
• Contribute to the group and actively learn.

• Record group roles and instructions at the beginning of a task.
• Document legibly and accurately group decisions and discoveries in a Recorder's Journal or learning Journal
• Maintain accountability for the overall quality of the Recoder's journal
• Control information flow, articulate concepts in alternative forms if necessary
• Prepare a report which can be used for discussion purposes when required
• Contribute to the group and actively learn

• Speak for the team when called to do so
• Ask questions posed by the team or request clarification
• Make oral presentations to the class for the team
• Use the Recorder's journal to share the team's dicoveries and insights. Collaborate Periodically with the Recorder.
• Contribute to the group and actively learn.