VIA / TCU 4th semester workshop
S2016
PORTFOLIO
Group Contract
CONTENTS OF THE DAY
 Introduction of the day
 Icebreaker. What do you expect from working in a group
 Intro to group contract
 Tools try out
 Summary
 Intro to Class Contract
Source: http://www.emu.dk/modul/gruppekontrakt-projektopgave
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM WORKING IN A GROUP?
In your new groups…
 Put words on your expectations to the coming project work and to each other. Use the
questions below to open up the discussion about group working:
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1. What is a good group?
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2. How important is the professional knowledge to you? How important is the social aspect to you?
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3. How much time will you spend on homework?
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4. What is the best about working in a group?
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5. When is it difficult to get the group work to function?
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6. What will you do if a group member does not maintain your agreements?
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7. What are you looking forward to the most – working in groups?
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Group Contract 2
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
The purpose of the group contract
 Balance your expectations
 Get the group to function in the best
possible way
 Organize the project work
 Strengthen your learning
 Maintain each other on agreements
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Group Contract 3
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Balance your expectations –
 Discuss your expectations to the group work, this
concerns both socially and professionally
socially
 Is it important that the group contains social
activities?
 What about humour?
professionally
It is important that the group reaches consensus
concerning meeting times and work discipline
 When is something good enough? Be honest and
open about your gene of perfection…
 When do you expect to be present at school?
What is your attitude about the Semester Syllabus
defining the study as full time?
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Group Contract 4
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Get the group to function in the best
possible way –
It is important to the group’s cohesion that it
can hold diversity
with dialogue
 How do you make sure, that everybody is heard
in the group – this in particular, to avoid the
strongest characters in the group to take over?
 How to make decisions in the group?
Be open to discussions, it always opens up the
issue further when your listen to other’s opinion
with a common set of values
 How do you maintain the cordial relations?
 What values do you priorities – in the
cooperation with other people?
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Group Contract 5
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Clarification of Team Goals/
Set of Values
 A tool to clarify the team’s goals/
set of values is to use the prioritizing sheet
to the right
 First individually, you must consider what
values that are important to you in
connection with group work
 Then in the group, you must consider
together what values should characterize
your group work and thereby form the
basis for your group work for the coming
assignment
 These considerations form the basis of
your group contract
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Group Contract 6
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Organize the project work –
focusing on operation
 Organize project meetings to match the
progress of the group’s work and to keep
everybody informed about the progress
of the work
 The planning of your work could feature
prominently on your agenda
focusing on learning
 Be aware that group activity not necessarily
ensures that everybody has the same amount
of knowledge!
 Sharing knowledge therefore is just as
important as the planning when you have
project meetings
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Group Contract 7
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Sharing knowledge
 Sharing knowledge is about making sure
that the knowledge each of you learn in
the process reaches all members of
the group
 It is your common responsibility in the
group that everybody is covered
with knowledge
 Therefore, consider how you
achieve the common knowledge
bank - in the best way
 Talk about, in the group, how you
learn in the best way
 Plan knowledge sharing meetings and
take the time it requires!
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Group Contract 8
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Strengthen your learning
 Dividing the work may be necessary but must
not delete the purpose of the group work
 Give yourself challenges and avoid dividing the
work according to the group member’s
individual competences
 Use each others strengths constructively
and to everybody’s advantage
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Group Contract 9
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Competence schedule
Team members
Competences
Education
Allowable weaknesses
Ann Margaret
Good in writing
Upper Secondary School
Takes on too many tasks
Paul Simon
Good in math and
building models
Upper Secondary School
Talks very little
Andy Wilson
Knowledge within
constructions
Carpenter
A perfectionist
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Group Contract 10
1st semester INT
INTRO TO GROUP CONTRACT
Maintain each other on agreements
 What brings good collaboration?
 What do you do when agreements are not
maintained?
 How can you use your group contract in practice?
 When are you having a conflict?
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Group Contract 11
1st semester INT
INTRO TO CLASS CONTRACT
Collaboration agreement about
the study environment
 The physical surroundings
 The way you talk to each other
 Collaboration across groups
 Consideration
 Engagement
REMEMBER to sign to engage yourself
to the agreements made in the group
► Be a part of the team!
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Group Contract 12
1st semester INT