Lori Ann – I had to have teams of 8 one semester due to the room size and arrangement – I had no choice – and it was horrible. Eight people on a team is too many. So, yes, I would highly recommend you regroup and reform teams. If they’ve only met 1 or 2 times as a team, you still have time to shuffle! If you formed teams based on specific criteria, you might look at the make-up of the teams and ask specific people if they’d be willing to go to a new team (I do it by email ahead of class time so as not to put anyone on the spot), or you can simply reassign and have new teams as they come in. But, I highly recommend getting your teams down to 5 and 6.

 

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I just started a new course and on the first  day of class, there were fewer than 15 students.  So I formed 2 teams of 7 students, thinking that some of the students would drop. But alas, no students have dropped and there are now 16 students.  We have only had 1 class thus far. Monday is my second class.  Should I leave the teams the way they are and just add the 2 new students to the existing groups or should I create a third team, pulling some students from team 1 and some from team 2. The only thing the new team would have to do is create their own code of ethics.

My concern though with creating the third team is that if someone does drop the course, at least one of the teams will then go down to 4 members. Thoughts?

Lori Ann

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