The Importance Of Group Work As A Pedagogical Tool

I believe our group work is going well. We haven’t had many meetings concerning bringing all the work together, but people have been working had individually as noted in the annotated bibliography. One complaint is that in the agreement we said that the annotated bibliography would be completed by the Sunday before the due date, when in actuality two members did not add their work to the group until the day the assignment was due. However, this is minor in the larger scheme since it was completed and submitted on time. We have made plans to come together next week to work on the project together and how and where everyone’s contribution will be placed. Overall I don’t have much to complain about as communication and work ethic are good. I

Learning how to work effectively in a group situation is key to success in many professions as well as in social situations. Groups vary from each other based on the individuals that make up each group, all of us belong to various groups at one time or another. The roles that we fulfill vary from group to

In my opinion, group work is a type of cooperative learning that helps people to accomplish a certain task in a faster and more effective manner. Team working also helps to achieve the tasks that are impossible to finish by one individual. However, if people in a group have a lot of conflicts, group work will not be able to achieve as much as we expected. There are many reasons which lead to dissatisfaction in group work such as individualism as well as conflicts in opinion and time.

Generally group learning is cost effective for employers, employees/learners and providers. Enabling continued and multi use of materials, resources and facilities. Group learning also ensures a consistent, common message and programme.

What expectations/goals do you have for your use of this strategy? After we have a couple of opportunities to use this task I would like for the student’s to give meaningful I wonder….. I think…… comments.

Group work has been a cornerstone of the social work profession and requires a variety of facilitator skills and awareness of group processes. The SSLDTM Group Program for People with Difficulties in Social Situations (Socialwork1914, 2017) provides an excellent example of a psycho-educational group co-facilitated by two female social workers, Jane and Karen. After viewing the 6th session of this 8-week program, I began to understand how the concepts of group formation/development, interpersonal dynamics, and leadership styles contribute to successful group work outcomes.

One of the biggest debates in high school athletic programs is should a talented student participate in multiple sports while still having classwork, or is it too much of a burden on them to cause a lot of stress? As many do not know, Jackie Robinson was a star athlete in four sports at the University California, Los Angeles; football, basketball, long jump and of course, baseball. I, on the other hand am just a two sport athlete. I play tennis in the fall and basketball in the winter. The barrier that I face is not only trying to perform excellent on both courts, but in the classroom as well. Through commitment and determination, I've managed to push through.

Teamwork can be complex and challenging given task and interpersonal issues, level of group motivation and expected performance standards. The concrete experience spoken about in this reflection piece is in reference to the effectiveness of myself as a group member and the group, working to write a report outlining the organisation and structure of Volkswagen. Dennison (2009) applies Kolb’s learning cycle (1981, 1984) which suggests that learning moves through a continuous cycle, between having an experience, and then reflecting on that action. This cycle has been developed from Lewin’s (1951) model for experiential learning. Reflection termed by Boud, Keogh and Walker (1985) ‘is a forum of response to the learner to experience’(p. 18). On reflection, the early set group dynamics was a defining factor in the experience, and how the team conducted themselves throughout the task. Meyerson, Wick and Kramer (1996) note that ‘such rapidly converging groups require methods for developing “swift trust”’ (p. 8), which can explain why initial group dynamics are so important. I took on multiple team roles, including group leader, which could be translated into the team not performing collectively on a high level, however, I could view this as a personal ineffectiveness of my leadership style.

“Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning that enhances the total output of the activity than when done individually”.

The MBA students are not working together as a functional team. Many reasons are causing the team to ignore the forming, norming, performing, and storming stages. For example, team members are not coming prepared to meetings, and laughing at other members etc. The fundamental management problem of this case is that the learning team is not functioning the way it was intended to by the director of student affairs for these MBA students. The solution to fix this problem is to use interaction management which is broken down into three segments. The action plan will have to be completed over the course of three weeks. Each week will be designated to working on one of the segments of the solution.

Strengths for our team include the fact that our group consists of upper level, business majors who have studied various aspects of business theory and knowledge. This knowledge will be used to the best of the group’s ability to develop and present a well-rounded final project. One notable weakness for our group is that we are having to communicate over a distance rather than work together in a single setting. This provides some obstacles as e-mail communication is often tedious when it comes to working together in a group. However, opportunity wise, our group consists of different minded members who can provide various and diverse insights for our group project. As a group our biggest threat is mostly time and communication. Because this class ranges over a few short weeks it is imperative that our group is mindful of deadlines as well as maintaining clear communication between all members.

I am Zeeshan Ali; I am working as a Computer teacher for Classes VI-X-M in Canal Side Boys Campus. I have done Masters in Computer Science (MCS) from Punjab University College of Information and Technology (PUCIT) Lahore. The students are the main focus of every teacher and our entire teaching efforts circle round our students to achieve the set targets. Effective Teaching includes many useful teaching strategies that a teacher chooses according to the requirement of his/her respective subject and topic as well. In result of my years of experience and as a Computer teacher I find Group Work as the most effective and fruitful technique at every level.

For the exercise, the teams were pre-assigned. Our team consisted of a diverse group of folks from the perspective of gender, ethnicity, age, professional background and experience. With the activity duration set at 1-hour, the team did both, introduction and understanding of the assignment at the same time. This team truly formed itself and equal leadership was established among the MBA students, within the first minute or two

In this semester, I enrolled in Managing Strategy Performance and grouped with four other students in my tutorial class. As a group, we achieved a satisfactory result and gain more experience during this period. At the beginning of the semester, our group established mission, strategic and value goals. These helped guide us to finish the group assignment in a structured and high quality way. Everyone contributed well to accomplish the goals of the group. We used different methods to overcome the group 's difficulties and shortcomings. For example, although everyone 's schedule is inconsistent, we all put our efforts to make time and carry out collaborative meetings where we could exchange ideas. Limited time was the greatest drawback that lead to delays in communication between team members. Social media platforms helped overcome these issues however. Overall, through the analysis of group experience we learnt academic knowledge and theories that helped us reflect and improve on our works for benefits in the future.

Availability of a course syllabus was one of the good things that defined the semester. The course syllabus explained the topics that would be taught throughout the semester. Thus, students oriented their minds with the requirements of the course. Such a situation contributed to a substantive part of the success achieved during the course. In addition, the professor encouraged groups work among the students. According to Brown (2014), group work enhance co-operation among the students. Undoubtedly, the teamwork resulting from the group work led to better understanding of business concepts as well contribution of new