This document outlines a presentation about building students' teamwork skills for successful integrated projects. The presentation discusses the benefits of integrated team projects, challenges of effective group work, and strategies to promote productive collaboration. It provides examples of different types of curriculum integration and examines the teacher's role in structuring effective student teams through group assignments, feedback, and establishing individual accountability. The goal is to translate research on teamwork into practical strategies that can be implemented and shared.

1. B uilding S tudents ’ Teamwork
S kills for S ucces s ful Integrated
Projects
Paula M. (Penni) Hudis , Ph.D., Director
Pathway and C urric ulum Development
www.C onnec tE dC alifornia.org
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2. Goals for Today’s Session
• Identify benefits and challenges to effective group work
• Examine research on effective student teams
• Translate research into practical strategies and
applications
• Share our experiences—and challenges— implementing
team projects, especially in an integrated curriculum
• Experience a team-building exercise
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3. Continuum of Integration
Single Parallel (Paired) Interrelated Conceptual
Subject
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
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4. Single Subject Integration
Single Parallel (Paired) Interrelated Conceptual
Subject
Individual
teachers make
connections
within their own
classroom
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
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5. Parallel or Paired Integration
Single Parallel (Paired) Interrelated Conceptual
Subject Two teachers share
some topics, without
team planning
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
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6. Interrelated Integration
Single Parallel (Paired) Interrelated Conceptual
Subject Several teachers
plan to
coordinate topics
and instruction
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
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7. Conceptual Integration
Math
Arts English
CTE
For
Sci
Lang
Soc
Stud
Single Parallel (Paired) Interrelated Conceptual
Subject Teacher team uses a
concept or problem to
frame instruction and
create curricular
coherence
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED
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8. Key Goals of Problem and
Project-Based L earning
Develop critical
thinking skills
Develop effective
Provide authentic
team-work skills
context for
delivering instruction
Deliver challenging, integrated Make the
academic and technical learning experience
content engaging for all students
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9. Why Integrated Team Projects?
Integrated team projects are an
effective way to meet all of
these learning goals.
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10. Challenges To E ffective Group Work
in Integrated Projects
Group Discussion:
What kinds of integrated team
projects have your students
completed?
What challenges have you faced?
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11. Strategies That Promote E ffective
Team Projects
Pair-share:
What team-building exercises
and other strategies have you
used to develop teamwork and
create groups that work
together productively?
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12. Building E ffective Student Teams
Let’s give it a try!
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13. What Does E ffective Group Work
L ook L ike in the Classroom?
• Students analyze their • Peer evaluation is
own group process part of the process
• Students identify • Students experience
group process multiple roles
problems and correct
• Students use
• Group process is part planning guidance
of the grading system and tools to be
productive
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14. Student Roles in Creating an E ffective
Group L earning Process
• Students design a group
performance rubric that
• Students participate in a gives them a stake in
team-building exercise that creating an effective
is fun and challenging learning process
• Students analyze their • Students create and sign
experience with the exercise a performance contract
that helps build trust in
each other
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15. E lements of a Performance Contract
• What elements would you like
to see students include in their
performance contract?
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16. The Teacher Role in Creating an
E ffective Teamwork Process
• Provide instruction on • Give prompt feedback
group process that focuses on individual
and group performance
• Structure the teams to
• Give multiple
foster cohesiveness and
assignments and
effective functioning assessments to build
• Include assignments that skills and reduce anxiety
foster collaboration and • Blends direct instruction
higher-level learning and group work
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17. Structuring Teams and Group Activities to
Facilitate Cohesiveness and Productivity
• Internally heterogeneous
• Individual and group groups
accountability • Students DO NOT
• Activities require physical select their own teams
proximity • Teams are
• Competition between appropriately sized—
teams plays a key role larger for more
complex projects
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18. Group Assignments That Promote
Higher Level Learning
• Assignments involve • Students resolve
teaching others (also differences between
builds trust) answers
• Students share and • Success involves
critique each other’s competing with other
groups
work
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19. Assignments That Build
Group Cohesiveness
• Include elements of • Incorporate an
group accountability element of competition
with other groups
• Require physical
proximity • Reward group success
• Involve discussion
based on analysis of
a complex problem
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20. Implementing the Research: Methods,
Challenges, and Solutions
Sharing Your Experiences:
• Group accountability
• Peer evaluation
• Evaluation of group process
• Share and critique other team
members’ work
• Team performance contracts
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21. B uilding S tudents ’ Teamwork S kills for
S ucces s ful Integrated Projects
Thank you for being here today!
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