Candidate Pattern: facilitatedteammeetings

Summary	Often in group work, teachers find that some students will take on an unfair burden while other become “Freeloaders”. Some students also fail to learn certain skills essential to survival to today's society. Failure to resolve this situation will result in frustration and group members disengaging themselves from the task.
Status	seed	Confidence
details...		Group

Problem

Context

• working with children in a school environment
• group work (collaborative)
• situation without predefined roles
• Identifying and negotiating each group member's roles are part of the learning experience

Solution

• facilitated team meetings -- teacher as facilitator, arranges regular meetings with project groups to find out about their progress and to mediate in conflicts if necessary
• peer evaluation
• self evaluation

Notes, Links and References

Liabilities, potential risks, extensions, expected side-effects

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Equal distribution of groupwork generally has some commonalities:

• clear group roles
• clear time line
• clear assessment rubrics based on quality and frequency of contribution by each member
• clear task
• clear meeting schedule
• clear documentation of work done by each member/clear tracking process by teacher

Some of the common challenges teams can face are:

• monitoring of work by each member
• integrity of reporting of work done
• subjectivity in terms of level of contribution & quality of work produced,

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