Assessment Vocabulary.doc created August 2001 Prepared by Leah M. Akins, Ph.D. page 1 Functional Group Roles (or Vocabulary List for Team Assessments)

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the action that we do.” —Mother Teresa “…most of us have a pretty good idea of what we what we expect from a doctor or a teacher.

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Team Roles & Group Effectiveness – FIRO & Belbin Contrasted. This article contrasts FIRO Team Roles and Belbin Team-Roles in relation to their approach to understanding and developing the effectiveness of individuals and groups.

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Essay “With extensive reference to appropriate theoretical literature, and supported by examples from your own experience, describe in detail how a group focused around either a youth centre or community centre develops from its inception.

What’s Belbin All About? Great teams start with Belbin! Belbin Team Roles is the language of teams, enabling individuals to be able to project and talk about their behavioural strengths in a productive, safe and non-confrontational way.

Advantages Disadvantages; Easiest to implement – does not require any additional work aside from marking the projects; Appropriate if group work mark is a part of total mark for the course

• A discussion of a work’s characters: are they realistic, symbolic, historically-based? • What motivates the characters or leads them to make the choices they do?

Group work can be an effective method to motivate students, encourage active learning, and develop key critical-thinking, communication, and decision-making skills.