Open AccessFostering Student Awareness of Team Skills: A Participative Team Formation Process for Class Projects
Author(s) -
Gregory Berka,
Amber L. D. Greenwood,
JaeHwan Lee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
insight
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1933-4869
pISSN - 1933-4850
DOI - 10.46504/16202106be
Subject(s) - process (computing) , class (philosophy) , team effectiveness , psychology , team leader , psychological safety , teamwork , knowledge management , computer science , management , applied psychology , artificial intelligence , economics , operating system
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.