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Reflecting

Empowering teachers and students for group work success

Storming
occurs as new groups
sort out roles and ways of working together

and may be a period of 
conflict.

Activities

Post-It Norming

Post-It Norming

This activity is designed for three purposes: (1) To help students identify and share disruptive behavior in previous group work situations, (2) To encourage reflection on their own skills and contributions, and (3) To scaffold the conversation about conflict while setting group norms and expectations

Conflicting Motives

Conflicting Motives

This activity helps show the impact of teammates’ individual motives on group productivity and outcomes.

Your Turn

Oakley, B. (2002). It Takes Two to Tango: How 'Good' Students Enable Problematic Behavior in Teams. Journal of Student Centered Learning, 1(1), 19-27.

 

Strong, J. T., & Anderson, R. E. (1990). Free-riding in group projects: Control mechanisms and preliminary data. Journal of Marketing Education, 12(2), 61-67.

 

Oakley, B., Felder, R. M., Brent, R., & Elhajj, I. (2004). Turning student groups into effective teams. Journal of student centered learning, 2(1), 9-34.

 

Bacon, D. R., Stewart, K. A., & Silver, W. S. (1999). Lessons from the best and worst student team experiences: How a teacher can make the difference. Journal of Management Education, 23(5), 467-488.

Further Exploration

 

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