2. Collaborative Research and Persuasive Presentation How do we motivate people to believe as we believe or take action?

3. Objectives – Day 1 O To identify and use collaborative group skills O To identify and establish group norms O Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. O - Henry FordHenry Ford

4. Trial and error? O Form your group: O Find one other person you work with very well, who has strong work habits. Write both your names on a slip of paper. Turn in. O Join up with another pair picked randomly. O You have 10 minutes. Create something with the supplies provided. O Share your finished product with the class. O BEGIN!

5. Time to debrief O Please respond individually to these questions: O 1. What did your group come up with? O 2. What problems did you face? O 3. Why did/didn’t you work well? O 4. Did everyone contribute? O 5. Was there a leader? Is this good or bad?

6. Debriefing continued O 6. Was a leader needed? O 7. What slowed the group down? O 8. What problems did you have in organizing? O 9. What responsibility did each member have? O 10. How could the group solve the problem faster next time?

7. Collaboration Think-Pair-Share O Think of a successful team you belong to. O What does it look like? O What does it sound like? O What qualities are needed to be successful?

8. Collaboration Think-Pair-Share O Think of an unsuccessful team you belong to or have belonged to. O What did it look like? O What did it sound like? O What qualities make an unsuccessful team?

9. Collaboration Defined O col·lab·o·rate O verb (used without object), col·lab·o·rat·ed, col·lab·o·rat·ing. 1. to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel. O www.dictionary.com

10. Characteristics of Effective Teams O Have a clearly defined purpose that guides their work and specific, measurable goals that they achieve. O Define and are committed to norms that guide how the team operates. O Are disciplined in maintaining their focus. O Communicate effectively within the team and those outside of the team. O http://www.turningpts.org//pdf/Teams.pdf

11. Establishing Norms What are they? O Norms are ways of working together that help groups be more thoughtful and productive. O Norms fall into two categories: procedural and interpersonal. O Once norms are established, it is important that the entire group take responsibility for them. O Norms can change and evolve as the group develops and matures. O www.scoe.org/files/setting-norms.pdf

12. Establishing Norms What do they look like? O Here are some common group norms: O Share information O Ask questions O Help the group stay on task O Listen critically O Weigh and evaluate ideas, facts, opinions O Be considerate O Cooperate O Speak clearly and loudly enough to be heard.

13. Areas to consider when setting norms O Logistics – time, place, duration, frequency O Timeliness – start, end, attendance O Courtesy – listening, interruptions, equal participation, dealing with disagreements, respect, empathy, work load O Decision Making Process – How will we make decisions? Reach agreements? How will we show agreement?

14. Areas to consider when setting norms continued O Workload assignment – How will work be assigned? How will conflicts with existing workloads be settled? O Setting Priorities – How will we discharge responsibility for on-time completion and equal distribution? O Enforcement of norms – How will we make sure norms are followed?

15. Your turn. O Write down 3 important norms for you. One per Post It note. O Put all Post Its in your group folder.

16. Objectives Day 2 O To identify and use collaborative group skills O To identify and establish group norms O True...there is no "i" in team, but there is a "u" in suck. O - unknownunknown

17. Work together to establish your group’s norms

18. Establishing Norms Procedure O Organize your Post It notes from yesterday. O Create a chart with 2 columns: procedural norms and interpersonal norms. O Do a Round Robin: each member of the group reads one of her/his Post Its and places it in the correct column. O Begin.

19. Narrowing Down Norms O Group the suggestions that are similar. For example: O “Take turns speaking.” O “Make sure everyone speaks.” O Can become “Make sure everyone is heard.”

20. Coming to consensus O Discuss the norms that have been suggested. O Are all in agreement about the norms? O Do you have 3-5 norms all members of the group can follow?

21. Group Process O Write down the 3-5 norms. O Post the norms during each meeting. O Review the norms before beginning work each day. O Add new norms as the team develops and new situations arise. O Share your group’s norms with the class.

22. Group Jobs O Complete the Team Skills Self-Evaluation sheet. O What do you bring to the group? O What are your strengths? (leader, tech savvy, detail oriented, organized, research, presentations, time management) O What are your weaknesses? (procrastination, unorganized, lose things)

23. Assigning Jobs O Based on your group discussion, volunteer for a job that will help your group be successful with the persuasive presentation. O Below your list of norms, create a list with the jobs/responsibilities and the name of the person who will be in charge of each for your group.

24. Practice O Form a circle with your group. O You will be given a question to discuss based on your own experiences. O You will be competing against the other groups. O Every member must contribute. O Members must contribute in random order, not just in order around the circle.

25. Practice continued O The Winners! O The group that has followed the rules explicitly (every member contributing at least 3 times in random order) in the shortest length of time.

26. Questions O 1. How do teenagers spend their free time? O 2. What is the best program on TV? O 3. In what ways could our school be improved? O 4. What is the best part about living in Rochester? O 5. Who is the most influential American living today? O 6. What is your favorite class this year? O 7. What has been the best invention in the past 10 years? O 8. What are some of your dream jobs?

27. Debrief Practice O How did the group decide in what order students were going to speak? O Who kept order? O What means were used to encourage the more reluctant members to contribute?

28. Objectives: Day 3 O To use collaborative group skills and established group norms to create a product and present it. O First: Clean up your folders so you only have your group norms and jobs; the rest can be recycled.

29. Take 2 O Review the group norms O Review the group jobs O Group Task: Collaborate as a group to create a new product using the supplies provided and persuade the audience in a 1- 2 minute speech to purchase your product. O Use Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. O Groups will vote on the most persuasive presentation.

30. Work Time O You have 15 minutes. O You may use notecards. O All members must be involved in the presentation. O BEGIN!

31. TTT2 - Debrief O 1. What went well? O 2. What problems did you face? O 3. Why did/didn’t you work well? O 4. Did everyone contribute? O 5. Did the group follow the norms? O 6. Did everyone meet his/her responsibilities? O 7. How could the group complete the task better next time?

32. Tomorrow O Report to the Business lab tomorrow O Have your gmail account set up O Bring your blue and green packets O We will begin work on the Persuasive Presentation O Hours 4,5, and 8 – Sales Self evaluations are due on Friday. Go to website April 23 to find form.

33. Tomorrow O We are in the classroom. O We will examine persuasive forces: ethos, pathos, logos O We’ll hear how these are used in a speech. O We will hear Sales speeches as we have time on December 15 and 16. O Get your gmail account set up by Friday!