InSight (Sep 2021)

Fostering Student Awareness of Team Skills: A Participative Team Formation Process for Class Projects

  • Gregory C. Berka,
  • Amber L. D. Greenwood,
  • Jae Hwan Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46504/16202106be
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16
pp. 115 – 126

Abstract

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This essay outlines a participative team formation process for class projects with resources to support instructors in implementing this process. This hybrid process, integrating self-selection and teacher assigned methods, includes four touch points that foster students’ awareness of effective team behaviors and the presence (or absence) of these behaviors within themselves and in team members. The awareness can provide students the foundation for developing team skills—beneficial in both team projects and in organizational teams.