Hello John Mark:

My instinct would be to decide on the basis of the curriculum.  If the second-semester course has different content, then it may require a different set of "assets," and thus, your distribution among teams would be different.  If, however, the content requires the same assets as the content in the first semester, then the considerations that you mention would come into play.

If this were the case,  and if you see more of less an equal weighting of pro's and con's, then you could ask the students which option they would prefer.

Regards
Brent MacLaine




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I teach a two-semester sequence and all of our students take the same classes at the same time in one section...so all the same students will be in my class next semester.

Should I keep the same teams or change teams? I see benefits both ways: same teams is good because they know and trust each other (assuming it’s a good team)...changing teams means they have to go through the building again, which I can see as both good and bad.

John Mark
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