1. Updates & News Reflections on Article Summaries & Assignment #1 Today’s focus: Group effectiveness & learning

2. What is a group? What enables it to learn? Discussion of Readings… What are 3-4 key ideas? What are 2-3 connections? What are 2-3 differences? Interdependent Tasks (what)  Work or performance is non-factorable and requires coordination.  An incremental performance need exists.  Task and final outcome rely on joint accountability. Collaborative Processes (how)  Members jointly define their approach.  Group is clear about their power and authority.  Members engage in supportive means of communication, particularly in moments of dissent and conflict. Coherent Composition (who)  Group has clear social boundaries.  Members remain stable over time.  Group contains an appropriate level/range of skills for the task.  Group has a manageable number of members.  There exist clear roles that support the group performance. Collective Commitments (why)  Members have compatible and/or shared understandings of the team purposes, goals, and values.  Members are committed to a final outcome.  Members hold strong commitments to support one another’s personal and professional growth.

3. Practice: Close Observation Take the perspective of one of this week’s authors… What do you notice? What suggestions can you offer?

5. Practice: Close Observation Take the perspective of one of this week’s authors… What do you notice? What suggestions can you offer?

6. Our questions for discussion... -(Jen) Group composition – management of social aspects -(Dan) purpose & outcomes -(Sarah) sense of conflict in today’s articles & video -(Charisse) relationship between assessments & objectives – tensions, decisions, etc. -(Zach) training of students for interactions in groups – social aspects, similarities with & differences from adult interactions

7. For next week... -Article summaries up by Tues -Readings for next time (Horn, Marsick, Cranton, Argyris & Schon)