Working as a successful team member remains one of the most important skills that employers report that they want when hiring college graduates. This means that when professors create well-executed and high-quality team projects, they can help their students succeed in a challenging job market. However, there are times when professors fail to help students […] The post A Student’s Guide to Success: Six Strategies to Reduce Team Conflict appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching...| Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
Every semester, students groan at the words “group project.” Instructors frame them as a way to build teamwork skills, but most students know the reality: uneven workloads, clashing schedules and at least one person who disappears until the night before the deadline. Far from teaching collaboration, group projects often highlight everything that makes collaboration difficult,...| Iowa State Daily
I originally planned on following up on my group projects assignment within a week, but got distracted by semantics. I’ll probably put that in another piece some day. Like many people, I conflate t…| educationrealist
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While a lot of “group work” is forced, group projects are an essential part of education. And while freeloaders are a problem, they aren’t the only personality type that needs han…| educationrealist