My past experiences of working in small groups has been very challenging whether its working for a school project or for other social events that I have hosted in a collaboration with other student clubs outside of the school.
• Communication among the group is one of the key concepts of successful group work, unfortunately it is one of the hardest things to achieve one of the team members always tend to be disengaged.
• Dividing tasks
• Language barriers
Working with international students, most times when working in a group with one or more international students the rest of the group tend to give international students the least amount of work stems from this notion of power dynamics tying their ability to speak english to their performance.
• Taking control claiming the work
• Valuing opinions
A discussion surrounding how your identity would be valuable to a group. What makes you standout? What makes you who you are? How would these aspects of the self play out in a group setting? Be descriptive here.
• leading
• Brainstorming
• Flexible
• Meeting times
• New ideas