Instructor Roles
Encourage
Students to take an active role, talk to one another and use critical creative thinking
Results
Improve test results, increase learning rates and pacing.
Working in teams
Some students have not been taught how to effectively work in a team, causing frustration and resentment.
Cognitive Domain
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
How long should exercises be?
An average of 10 Mins.
Challenges
Students to continue to expand their discussions into other areas.
Effective
Ratain information longer.
Acquire great communication and cohesive teamwork skills.
Not relating to SCI.
Some students do not immediately relate to SCI, it is up to us to incorporate several group activities to reinforce effective team behaviours.
Affective Domain
Receiving
Responding
Valuing
Organizing
Characterizing
What is the purpose of exercises?
Ensure they are purposeful to the objective, don't make them trivial
Allows
Student discussions to run their course without losing control of the class and still staying on topic.
Impact
Gain a better understanding of the environment they will be working in.
Increase instructor and student motivation.
No natural team skills
Students are not born with project management, time management, conflict resolution, and communication skills required for high-performance teamwork.
Psychomotor Domain
Perception
Set
Guided Responses
Mechanism
Complex Overt Responses
Adaptation
Origination
How do you justify the time group-work takes?
By making it challenging.
Ensures
Facilitates without becoming the centre of attention, keep the focus on the students.