Making Team Projects Work: A College Instructor's Guide to Successful Student Groupwork [Paperback]

This user-friendly manual walks instructors step by step through the process of creating, assigning, and executing successful group projects at the college level.

Informed by a simple input-process-output model of group behavior, this guide provides structured advice, examples, and worksheets to design and facilitate effective team projects. Topics include assigning teams, developing meaningful tasks, fostering leadership, managing conflict, communicating effectively, and supporting teams in an online environment. Each chapter features sections and readymade handouts that speak directly to students, making it easy for educators to share content with their student teams and spend valuable classroom time teaching course material rather than team skills.

Whether in person or online, Making Team Projects Work will be a valuable companion for any college educator interested in incorporating group projects into their curricula.

1. Welcome to Making Team Projects Work? 2. Creating Effective Team Members? 3. Designing an Effective Team Task? 4. Setting a Positive Team Context? 5. Setting Norms and Clarifying Roles? 6. Building Effective Team Leadership? 7. Creating Motivated Team Members? 8. Fostering Effective Team Communication? 9. Providing Team Problem-Solving Skills? 10. Managing Team Conflict? 11. Creating Successful Virtual Team Projects? 12. Evaluating Teams: Task and Members? 13. Concluding Comments to Making Team Projects Work

This user-friendly manual walks instructors step by step through the process of creating, assigning, and executing successful group projects at the college level.

Placing students into groups is a classic instructional method. Yet sometimes students and instructors need supplemental guidance to make group work successful rather than frustrating. If you use student group projects as an instructional method this is a must-have lÓ%