Mark,
I just want to throw this one thing out there. Does the talkative student
have accommodations? Could he have Asperger's Syndrome? This
characteristic is typical of them, and if he does have it, you may need to
reconsider how you deal with the problem.
Karen
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Karen Peterson
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University of South Alabama
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 1:49 PM Mark Stevens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I'm currently teaching a 7-person class with a single team. I am finding
> that one of the students talks almost non-stop during the team
> activities, and that 3-4 of the remaining students say almost nothing
> because the talkative student doesn't give them much of a chance. The
> talkative student is very knowledgeable and is usually saying something
> useful and on the right track, but I am worried that the other students
> will disengage and get frustrated.
>
> I always have my teams complete an ungraded midterm peer evaluation to
> provide constructive feedback to their teammates on their
> behavior/performance, and the midterm comments always include some
> combination of encouraging the talkative students to give quieter
> students more chance to talk, and encouraging the quieter students to
> talk more. As a result, I have found that the students tend to balance
> out the over/under talkativeness issues on their own via the midterm
> peer evaluation comments, if not sooner.
>
> But in this case, my talkative student is SO talkative that I'm not sure
> I should wait another 3-4 classes for the midterm evaluation to start
> the process of balancing the team out and I wonder if I should intervene
> in some way to help out.
>
> What do you all think? Do you think I should intervene (and if so,
> how?), or should I leave it up to the students to find a better balance
> on their own?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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> Associate Professor, School of Community & Regional Planning
> Director, Planning Evaluation Lab
> University of British Columbia
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