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More Teamwork. More Learning. Less Hassle. How a Web-Based Team Development System Can Change the Way You Teach!
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Why do students often dread group assignments? Because teaching teamwork skills is not the primary focus of most courses. Lacking guidance and instruction, students often have bad experiences when working in teams – they find it difficult to ensure equal participation by all team members, manage interpersonal conflicts, plan and coordinate activities, identify roles and responsibilities, and agree on group processes. Consequently, instructors spend valuable time “intervening” in an attempt to solve team problems.
You may not teach teamwork skills, but you can help your teams overcome these challenges. Team+ is an easy to implement, fully web-based system that can be used in any course, regardless of course content. A series of carefully designed activities will help your student teams develop more effective teamwork skills. These activities promote participation (reduce social loafing!), communication, and planning and coordination among teammates. With less conflict, your teams will focus more on learning classroom material and you have more time to teach content. And, our unique Instructor Dashboard allows you to monitor the participation of each team member!
Join us for an interactive session where you can logon to the Team+ System and see all of its features, including the team development activities, a library of self-help videos, the 360° self and peer performance evaluation process, and the Instructor Dashboard.