Project-based learning can develop work-group skills--
if it uses team projects
It needs a DTA familiar with group facilitation roles.
Consideration of how project-based learning can teach the skills needed to function effectively in work groups, thus adding a new amd valuable skill set to the course.
Web-world for nonprofits
and public service organizations
- Project-based learning
- Project-based learning in this blog
- DTA: Digital Teaching Assistant
- Group facilitation roles (search)
- Group facilitation roles (Wikipedia)
- Scholarly articles for Group facilitation roles
- Scholarly articles for Leadership Styles and Facilitation Skills
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Project-based learning: DTA assistance
Specific skills
- Agenda training for a project meeting by a self-managed group. Learning to plan in a group
- Action-item practice for group meetings in project based learning. Effective meetings don't just happen, they are planned.
- Project-based learning with work-groups: Not just the content: project skills, team skills, self-confidence
- DTA can guide ideation sessions. Group ideation: "Brainstorming"
- The DTA as search coach: How does that work? Especially for project-based learning
- Search tips from a digital coach: DTA content page
- Project-based learning with work-groups: Not just the content: project skills, team skills, self-confidence
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
Group facilitation
- Group facilitation techniques (Search)
- Scholarly articles for group facilitation techniques
- Group Facilitation Techniques and Methods
- Group facilitation roles (Wikipedia)
- Leadership Styles and Facilitation Skills
Search Results
Needed skills:
- Recognize when a particular role is needed.
- Produce the role or cue somebody else to do it..
- How would you teach these?
Common roles needed
- Starter: "Time to get started."
- Track manager: "Let's get back to the subject."
- Agenda manager: "The agenda item is..."
- "What agenda item are we working on?"
- "Do we put that on the agenda for next time?"
- Methods manager: "How do we do that?"
- Action-item manager: "I did my first action item and am ready to reporrt.
- "Sam, do you have a report on your action item."
- "We need to get that done. Can someone take it as an action item?"
- Will the minutes list the action items and who is taking them?"
- Ideator:"Let's brainstorm a bit on that."
- Recorder/secretary: "Let me review the action items."
- Gatekeeper: "I think Jane was about to say something and I want ti hear it."
- People-person: "Joe had a suggestion that we should not ignore."
- Closer: "I think we are in agreement on this. Is there anything else we need to say?"
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