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.
The Reflector has the following tasks
- 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.
The recorder is responsible for the following tasks
- 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
The spokesperson has the following tasks
- 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.