1. Team Work and Cooperation in Learning

2. Team work
How did your team work go?
What worked?
What did not work?

3. Lets Brainstorm
What is needed to make a team work?

4. Successful Team Work All members must participate
All members must commit to the work
Members must communicate
Members must respect each other
Teams must have enough time

5. Misuses of Group Work
Students may pay more attention to procedures than to learning
Misunderstandings may be supported and reinforced
Socializing with friends may come before learning
Students may pick a leader and shift dependency to that student
Social loafing may occur
Ex. One student letting the others do the work

6. Things to consider To be a good listener
To cooperate in constructive feedback
To respect differences of opinion
To support judgments with evidence
To appreciate diverse points of view (gender, culture…)
Disagree without put downs
See controversy as opportunity not a problem

7. Benefits of team work Can boost self confidence of students
Invites students to build closer connections to others and to learning
Calls for ingenuity, inventiveness, flexibility, adaptability to change
Prepares students for workplace teams