2020 BIZ: #DTA: #VWEDU: Agenda training for a project meeting by a self-managed group. Learning to plan in a group

Agenda training for a project meeting 
by a self-managed group.   
Learning to plan in a group

Project-based learning can go beyond content to give practice in how to work in a group--and to show students what they can do. 

Where is the agenda?

Agenda for project-based learning in groups

• Any good meeting starts with an agenda.
• If a meeting has a skilled leader, the leader will prepare an agenda.
• A skilled leader will keep the group focused on the agenda.
• The meeting will accomplish many of the things it set out to do.  
• Things not accomplished will be assigned as action items.   
• The participants can feel a sense of accomplishment. 
• But how does this work out in project-based learning?

Project-based learning and self-managed teams

• In project-based learning the students have to run the groups by themselves.
• Project-based learning can give experience in a self-managed team.
• Project-based learning with work-groups: Not just the content: project skills, team skills, self-confidence
• Training self-managed teams
• They learn how to work with a team on a project.

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Agenda

Items to be completed by individuals before the meeting

• Planning your contribution to the meeting:
• What do you want completed by the end of the meeting?
• You questions to be answered (list):
• Your pending action items (What is your progress?  What help do you need?): 
• Action items you will propose to be taken (not necessarily by you):
• Action items you will offer to take.
• (Entry form given for each item.)

DTA use

• Students are told how to use the form at the beginning of the course.
• Students are advised that their contributions affect their grades.
• DTA presents the form to each student several days before the meeting.
• DTA withdraws this form when the meeting starts. 
• DTA makes a form available to the instructor on any new entry.
• Instructor can offer feedback to each student
• DTA presents the entire set of completed forms to everyone at meeting start.

Training plan for a project meeting by a self-managed team

• Forms to be presented by the DTA.
• And to be completed (by each participant) for a project meeting. 
• These forms serve for training: 
• They cause the students to think about things that lead to a productive meeting.
• The teacher can evaluate the contribution of each participant.
• The anticipated evaluation is what concentrates the minds of the students.
• Self-managed teams (search)
• Virtual teams (Wikipedia)

Related

• Working together apart, virtual worlds, social media
• Essential roles in a self-managed working group (team)
• Tools for group meetings: Agenda
• Group Projects: Tools for getting it done: action items
• Learn to be a self-starter. Self-managed learning, libraries, learning communities.
• Online libraries as centers for adult instruction. Self-managed learning.
• Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
• Self-managed learning and the role of the online library
• Challenge-based education and self-managed learning: on the same team!
• Group projects in virtual worlds: How to make them work
• Tools for organizing a group project: SWGs
• David Lee - Design Thinking in the Classroom: How-to for project-based learning
• Project-based learning with work-groups: Not just the content: project skills, team skills, self-confidence

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