Creating Interdependence

Creating Interdependence
It is important to create interdependence in this course because you will be working together on team projects that require everyone's input. Build trust through routine and consistent communication. Establish your own routine for learning and share it with your team. Establish posting deadlines as a team. Stick to them or say why you can't, with a posting such as, "I will be out of town next week the 15th-18th and won't be online. Catch you all when I get back on Friday."

Discuss your expectations for contributions with your team. How will you share responsibility for reviewing resources? Will each of you try to study at least three sources and post synopses in Week B: Teacher as Scholar? How will you give and receive feedback in Week C: Teacher As Designer? Will you provide feedback to everyone on the team, or only one other person? How will you get your teammates' best ideas into the discussion? Will you each do a summary--"It seems to me we are saying..." or will doing summaries be optional?

This course may be your opportunity to play a different team role. Are you always the leader? Try being the last to contribute. Do you always put the most ideas out? Try doing more feedback. Do you seldom synthesize for a group? Be the first and last to do it for your team.

This course is designed to be asynchronous, which means that you can join the discussions at any time, day or night; no one needs to meet you in real time. However, as a rule of thumb, all activities for a week should be completed by midnight on Sunday.

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[ Knowing Your Facilitator ] [ Creating Interdependence ]
[ Sitting in the Front ] [ Showing What You Don't Know ]
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