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ERIC Number: EJ1362371
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1740-4622
EISSN: EISSN-1740-4630
Examining Small-Group Roles through Team-Building Challenges
Kuehmichel, Shannon
Communication Teacher, v36 n4 p275-280 2022
This original teaching idea uses an adaption of the STEM activity the Paper Tower Challenge to have students examine task and maintenance roles as well as non-functioning behaviors in small groups. While problem solving as a small group, students navigate conflict and frustration, assume various small-group roles, and then reflect on their own and their group members' performance. The activity includes the challenge, a set of reflection questions, a discussion procedure, and adaptations for virtual students and for diverse classrooms. Courses: Introduction to Public Speaking, Small Group Communication, and Oral and Interpersonal Communication. Objectives: Affective: Students will persevere through frustration and conflict in small-group team-building challenges. Behavioral: Students will perform various task roles, maintenance roles, and non-functional behaviors (see Appendix for descriptions) that affect the outcome of group work. Students will collaborate to solve a problem. Cognitive: Students will increase their knowledge by identifying and applying group roles and behaviors. Students will assess their own performance with a series of reflection questions.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
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