Tip:Teaching With Teams

Teams work best when:

• they are small (5 or 6 students)
  
  
• they are assigned a task that cannot be done well by one person alone
  
  
• members have clear PROJECT roles (tasks for which each is formally responsible)
  
  
• members have clear GROUP roles (e.g., convenor, time-keeper, monitor, recorder)
  
  
• instructors give clear instructions regarding process, schedule, product, evaluation criteria
  
  
• part of the grade is based on peer evaluation, thus discouraging "free-riders"