| If you are teaching
teaming skills and have a half a class or so for team communication,
here is what you could do:
Learning Objective
Students should be able to identify their beliefs and assumptions
that impact the team.
Classroom Activity
Discuss "Ladder
of Inquiry" and "How
might I improve my ability to listen?" sections
of this document and have students tell their teammates what assumptions
they make based upon people’s behaviors (e.g., if you do not
talk, I think you do not care about the assignment, when really
you might be a quiet person, and you are waiting patiently to be
asked to speak).
Students should review the "Effective
Listening" techniques and tell team members what
techniques they are going to use more to help in the reduction of
making assumptions (e.g., I am going to summarize what I have understood
you to have said in order to reduce my making assumptions). Teammates
might put in writing what effective listening techniques they are
going to practice with their team and revisit the issue four weeks
after this assignment (will take ~10 minutes of additional class
time).
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