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January 22, 2006
Roy Dejoie
I met Roy Dejoie from Purdue at the DSI Conference in San Francisco last November. Roy has extensive teaching experience using teams and developed and taught an award-winning class at Purdue entitled Team Dynamics. Roy sent two articles that are posted in the Links section (upper right). One article describes how his class was constructed, in part, to deal with a growing student frustration about the use of teams in the classroom. Specifically, students believed
"1) they were ill-equipped to handle the many issues surrounding team dynamics, often feeling as if they were thrown to the wolves, and 2) because of the first issue, they felt that the use of teams did little, if anything, to enhance their understanding of the subject matter and, in many cases, detracted from their enjoyment or understanding of the subject matter." (Team Dynamics Course, p. 1)
I'm sure that sometime along the way, some of my students have had these concerns. So maybe I should take 10 minutes here or there to discuss effective teamwork skills?
Posted by DavidK at January 22, 2006 12:11 PM | Permalink