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
http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/people/mark-stevens
604-822-0657

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