Resources and video recordings
Friday, September 23, 2022 HILT Conference
“Teamwork: Facilitating Group Dynamics and Encouraging Student Collaboration”
Video recordings
Media
- “Why Psychological Safety Matters in Class: HILT conference talks teaming and feeling okay to speak up” – HGSE News
Morning plenary session
- Report: The Future of Climate Education at Harvard University
- Into Practice feature: “Human-centered design processes to build successful teams“
- Report of the Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force
- “Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses“
Designing group projects for engaged scholarship
- Slides for “Teams in MLD-377M. Organizing: People, Power, Change” from Marshall Ganz, Emily S. Lin, and Maggie Hughes
- Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship: “Getting Started with Engaged Scholarship“
- Padlet activity curated by attendees
Learning and Working Together: Effective Strategies for Student Team Projects
- Session Slides
- Harvard Center for International Development, Building State Capability: “PDIA in Action“
- “Learning effectively through teams” – VPAL’s Into Practice e-letter features session speaker Matt Andrews
- “Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams” – Journal of Student Centered Learning (2004)
- Harvard Learning and Development: “Senior Team and Executive Coaching“
- “Why Psychological Safety is the Key to High Performing Teams” – Workday.com
Approaches to collaborative assessments and peer feedback
Facilitating discussion around opposing views
- Justice in Schools Case Studies
- Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Normative Case Studies
- The Courageous Conversation Compass – from the Courageous Conversation Organization
- “Foundations: Setting the Conditions” for Facilitating Hot Moments in the Classroom (HGSE, TLL)
- Instructional Moves: Educating for Equity and Inclusion
- “Big Paper: Building a Silent Conversation” – Facing History & Ourselves
Additional resources
- Team Launch Worksheet (HGSE / HKS)
- Designing Project Teams that Work (Instructional Moves)
- Leveraging Norms for Challenging Conversations (HGSE TLL)
- James Lang: Why Students Hate Group Projects (and How to Change That) (6/17/22 Chronicle)
- Faculty Guide to Team Projects (University of Minnesota)
- Icebreakers: The Story of Your Name; more at Community-Building Activities (OneHE)
- Reflective Listening and Helping Students Reflect on their Group Work (U. of New South Wales)
- Guidelines for Using Groups Effectively (U-Michigan Center for Research on Learning & Teaching)
- Development and Assessment of Collaboration, Teamwork, and Communication (U-Michigan Center for Research on Learning & Teaching)
- Student Teams in the Engineering Classroom and Beyond: Setting up Students for Success (U-Michigan Center for Research on Learning & Teaching)
- What are Approaches that Can Help Make Group Work Effective? (Vanderbilt Ctr. for Teaching)