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TEACHING
TIPS: How to develop students' teamwork skills
Introducing students to the team process
The team process can be summarised into five main steps:
- Forming-getting to know one another (usually there's little conflict at this stage)
- Storming-arguing about processes and roles (there's normally lots of conflict here, and sometimes it's not visible on the surface)
- Norming-agreeing on collaborative processes and roles (interpersonal conflict subsides at this point)
- Performing-getting the job done (this is possible because the main issues of conflict have been resolved)
- Dorming-coming off the boil (this stage often occurs between team projects, or when important milestones within a project have been met, and there's little or no conflict for a while).
