Action-item practice for group meetings
in project based learning.
Effective meetings don't just happen,
they are planned.
A plan for using a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) to simulate the practice of using explicit action items to support effective group functioning in problem- or project-based learning with teams.
Productive groups use action items
- Groups get things done with action items.
- Actions are explicitly undertaken by a member of the group.
- The expectation is that the person will later report on progress..
- Adults typically feel responsible for completing the action.
Project-based learning and self-managed teams
- 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
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
Training plan for a team meeting
- Forms to be presented by the Digital Teaching Assistant.
- And to be filled out (by each participant) before a project meeting.
- These forms serve for training:
- They push the students to planning things that lead to a productive meeting.
- Self-managed teams (search)
- Virtual teams (Wikipedia)
Action items
Items to be completed by individuals before the meeting
- Effective meetings don't just happen, they are planned.
- 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.
DTA use
- DTA presents the form 2 days before the meeting to each student.
- DTA withdraws this form when the meeting starts.
- DTA makes tho 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.
- Thus everyone can see what everyone has done.
- Some would do better planning than others.
- That would instruct others by showing examples of good work.
- And might motivate with peer pressure.
At the meeting
- There is a report on each pending action item.
- For items not completed, a path forward is planned at the meeting.
- The DTA collects the new status of each action item, with path forward.
- The resulting meeting report is available to the teacher for evaluation and feedback.
Task group management
- Tools for group meetings: Agenda
- How to become a group facilitator in 7 easy steps
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
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
- Tools for group meetings: Agenda
- How to become a group facilitator in 7 easy steps
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
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