1. Group Roles

2. Agenda + Learning Targets
Finish Spirit Animal Speeches
Take notes on group roles
Analyze group roles
Learning Targets:
Practice being an active audience.
Identify categories and roles present in groups
Apply group roles to Big Bang Theory Videos

3. Spirit Animal Speeches
8th Hour:
Andrew B.
Lilly
Diana
Rahul
Lauren
Kailee
Mary
Sean
Arnold
Caroline
Olivia
Andrew
Osman

4. Three Types of Roles Task Roles: get the job done
Selfish Roles: block progress
Maintenance Roles: create cohesiveness in a group

5. Task Roles: individuals that get the job done, keep the group moving
1. Initiators: suggest ways to approach topic, problem solving ideas
2. Information-givers: offer facts or information, statements of opinion, belief of suggestion
3. Info-seekers: ask for information or facts
4. Summarizers: messages that pull together ideas, restate problems, suggestions, and conclusions
5. Testers: Is that okay with everyone? Reaching agreements.

6. Selfish Roles: block the progress or make discussion difficult
1. Aggressor: intimidates others
2. Withdrawal: won’t participate
3. Dominator: won’t let others speak
4. Blocking: offers negative insight
5. Clown: paper airplane maker
6. Recognition seeker: boasters

7. Maintenance Roles:
“people persons,” they work to fix problems in group and keep them moving
1. Encourager: “Good idea”, friendly facial expressions showing acceptance
2. Harmonizer: relieves tension, disagreements
3. Compromiser: offers alternatives, modifies position
4. Expressor: tells groups feelings, “We all seem to be saying…”

8. Journal Which role are you most comfortable in?
Is there are role that you only take on in a vacuum? (i.e. no one else is leading, so only you taking on that role?)
Which roles frustrate you the most when a group member takes on that role?

9. Life Cycle of Groups
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing

10. Life Cycle of Groups: Forming
Infancy
State reasons for joining the group, what goals and accomplishments will be
Anxious about fitting in with the group
Polite tendencies
Members will quickly move to establish leadership
Members are searching for similarities

11. Life Cycle of Groups: Storming
Adolescent
Members challenge differences of goals and approaches to express individuality
Leadership may be challenged as people want to establish control
Create order and establish rules for decision making

12. Life Cycle of Groups: Norming
Conflicts begin to be resolved
Group becomes a cohesive unit, ready to tackle the task
Members learn to function effectively as a group
Share leadership functions, allowing members to lead at appropriate places in discussion
Group begins to experience success

13. Life Cycle of Groups: Performing
Trust and affection begin to form
Each member feels he or she is a key part of this unique group
They are now able to work together effectively to complete the task

14. Group Roles Videos:
The Big Bang Theory: Going to the Movies gYk
The Big Bang Theory: Dungeons and Dragons -Ss

15. Video Chart Task Roles Video 1: Video 2: Selfish Roles
Maintenance Roles

16. Big Bang Characters
Sheldon Cooper

17. Raj Koothrappali

18. Leonard Hofstader

19. Howard Wolowitz

20. Amy Fowler

21. Penny

22. Extra Time: Schmee
First Round: Explain as many as you can in 30 seconds
Second Round: Act it out
Third Round: One word: this includes likes and ums…

23. Schmee:
Write 5-7 different names of people that many people would know.

25. Question of the Day
If you could live anywhere for one year, all expenses paid, where would you live?
What is your most embarrassing moment?
Name the song title that best describes your life.
What book has influenced you greatly? How?

26. Debrief Last Week Lost on the moon Mystery Group Problem Solving
How were the decisions made in your group?
Was a leader needed?
What was your strategy for solving the mystery? / How did you organize the information?
Did problems arise when people didn’t share their clues or the clues of others were ignored?
Were attempts made to encourage the participate of all members?

27. Lost on the Moon Which number was higher?
Why do you think that number was higher?
What does this reveal about working in groups?

28. Journal Questions
Essential Questions: Answer one of the following questions from this section.
Are groups necessary?
How do we form a cooperative group?
What is the danger of “groupthink?”
Your Turn: Everyone answer this question.
Think about a time that you were a part of group that worked well together. What made this group successful? How did you contribute to this group?

29. Factors Affecting Group Discussion
Size?
Cliques?
Personal Goals?
Leadership? Acceptance? Security?
Seating arrangement?
What is the best way to work in a group?