Teaching Team skills
In summary:
Here you can find files (in both Word and PDF formats) for the tutorials that I run on team training spread out over semester to ensure our students learn team skills. These training exercises were meant to facilitate their semester-long documentary assignment where students were asked to make a 10-15 minute documentary video about one of the the themes in the module Plant Ecophysiology (previously called Plants and the Soil Environment) in groups of 4. As the students come from two campuses I had them using Microsoft Teams from the beginning of 2020 and together with the team training activities the module proved very resilient to floods, strikes and the COVID-19 lockdown.
The student notes below are provided in each group's Microsoft Teams Class Notebook collaboration space for the students to discuss and comment, and are uploaded as a PDF in 'Files'. These files are from 2020 but not much has changed in the resources - One change I've made this year is to get students to tell me what they expect is good teamwork behaviours in the first Team Training session and then slot them into the list provided in the materials.
My earlier Blog post which explored this semester's class as it happened can be read here.
Student Videos: HERE
Other resources
Link to Podcast: I had a fun discussion with Dustin Hosseini for Digital Education Practices Podcast and you can hear our conversation here.
Link to publications:
Book chapter: Rasmussen A and Kuchel L (2023) How to Be a Functional Team Member. IN Susan Rowland and Louise Kuchel (Eds): Teaching Science Students to Communicate: A Practical Guide, 978-3-030-91627-5, 509712_1_En, (Chapter 65) pgs 513-519.
Rasmussen and Wang (2020 - tbc)
Rasmussen A, Rossini R, and Kuchel L. (2011) Is it worth taking time out of first year science courses to explicitly teach team skills? IN: Krause, K., Buckridge, M., Grimmer, C. and Purbrick-Illek, S. (Eds.) Research and Development in Higher Education: Reshaping Higher Education, 34: 238 – 252). Gold Coast, Australia, 4 – 7 July 2011.
Here you can find files (in both Word and PDF formats) for the tutorials that I run on team training spread out over semester to ensure our students learn team skills. These training exercises were meant to facilitate their semester-long documentary assignment where students were asked to make a 10-15 minute documentary video about one of the the themes in the module Plant Ecophysiology (previously called Plants and the Soil Environment) in groups of 4. As the students come from two campuses I had them using Microsoft Teams from the beginning of 2020 and together with the team training activities the module proved very resilient to floods, strikes and the COVID-19 lockdown.
The student notes below are provided in each group's Microsoft Teams Class Notebook collaboration space for the students to discuss and comment, and are uploaded as a PDF in 'Files'. These files are from 2020 but not much has changed in the resources - One change I've made this year is to get students to tell me what they expect is good teamwork behaviours in the first Team Training session and then slot them into the list provided in the materials.
My earlier Blog post which explored this semester's class as it happened can be read here.
Student Videos: HERE
Other resources
Link to Podcast: I had a fun discussion with Dustin Hosseini for Digital Education Practices Podcast and you can hear our conversation here.
Link to publications:
Book chapter: Rasmussen A and Kuchel L (2023) How to Be a Functional Team Member. IN Susan Rowland and Louise Kuchel (Eds): Teaching Science Students to Communicate: A Practical Guide, 978-3-030-91627-5, 509712_1_En, (Chapter 65) pgs 513-519.
Rasmussen and Wang (2020 - tbc)
Rasmussen A, Rossini R, and Kuchel L. (2011) Is it worth taking time out of first year science courses to explicitly teach team skills? IN: Krause, K., Buckridge, M., Grimmer, C. and Purbrick-Illek, S. (Eds.) Research and Development in Higher Education: Reshaping Higher Education, 34: 238 – 252). Gold Coast, Australia, 4 – 7 July 2011.
PDF versions of the team training exercises (student and teacher notes)
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Word versions of the team training exercises (student and teacher notes)
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