Hi Mark, A few thoughts... Have you considered an informal team check in to discuss what is going well and what could change for the better? Also, I wonder whether your discipline formally acknowledges/values team functioning (within/across disciplines and other stakeholders)? If so, I wonder how seeding the discussion with questions about how their team process is an opportunity to parallel the functioning of their professional/vocational world and the value of surfacing voices less heard. The instrument you are using in a few weeks as a formative assessment could also ground a discussion in class, if your learners have not seen it yet. Liz Liz Winter, Ph.D., LSW Child Welfare Resource Center School of Social Work University of Pittsburgh 717-601-6896 NOTICE: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by person or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. -----Original Message----- From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Stevens Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 2:49 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Whether to intervene when a student dominates the team discussion 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 -- Mark Stevens, PhD, MCIP Associate Professor, School of Community & Regional Planning Director, Planning Evaluation Lab University of British Columbia 433-6333 Memorial Road Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scarp.ubc.ca%2Fpeople%2Fmark-stevens&data=02%7C01%7Ceaw44%40PITT.EDU%7C64b89d3014604c900cd508d67fd994c9%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C1%7C636836969817003107&sdata=Xh5u%2BNx%2BibReaRZ2k4DLqNI1qjF6pcRpn4WTiUD6nFk%3D&reserved=0 604-822-0657 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.ubc.ca%2Fscripts%2Fwa.exe%3FSUBED1%3DTEAMLEARNING-L%26A%3D1&data=02%7C01%7Ceaw44%40PITT.EDU%7C64b89d3014604c900cd508d67fd994c9%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1%7C1%7C636836969817003107&sdata=Y0U7VN0WGPGveOHVBC2FApRAqYSruGFVNpIgNUpPISc%3D&reserved=0 Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1 Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website.