Unit Notes - FDWO Week 2: The Deep Dive

Week 4 is about facilitating teams, and dealing with group dynamics.

The mini-session this week is:

• Case: Team in Trouble - This is a story about, well, a team in trouble! It is based on real experiences of the team coach at RRU, and is intended to reflect some of the common conflicts that can arise in teams who are dealing with the expectation of working together under the pressure of deadlines.

Please go to the ISWO Sandbox and review the BackPocket Strategy for this activity to remind you of the details, learning outcomes, and suggested approaches.  This, combined with your own experience, may "twig" other ideas that you could add to the backpocket strategies and suggest to your participants.

Also in Week 4:

• people are asked to check in on their "self-assessment" of participation.

Tip:

• this is a good time for mini-session facilitators to think about:
  • how much team work is enough or too much in a course?
  • how do team, individual and class activites inter-relate?
  • should team composition stay constant or change throughout a course?