ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION & GUIDANCE

This course involves multiple self-awareness exercises to help you understand how you can change your thoughts and behaviours to increase your group skills. You will be asked to create a short reflective report that explains how you see groups differently and how this course has changed your view on group work (positively or negatively). Essentially, you are going to answer the question "what did I get out of the Group Dynamics course?".

This is an individual assignment; your report should not involve any other classmates.

Assignment Steps

1. Take notes during lectures, complete self-assessment surveys/questionnaires, and participate in exercises (group and individual) throughout the course.
2. Critically evaluate your personal ideas about group work and your learning throughout the course (critical evaluation involves objectively looking at evidence to come to a conclusion).
3. Gather evidence to support your evaluation and explanation of learning. Include realistic, evidence-based information about topics you have learned, ideas you may have changed, things you have learned about yourself, and positive and negative experiences you have encountered.Note:You will not be penalized for providing negative feedback about your changes, as long as there is evidence to back up your findings.
5. Examples of evidence you can include:
6. Results from questionnaires and surveys taken at the beginning of the course, and again near the end of the course (discuss differences in results).
7. Notes from class discussions - what did you identify with during lectures? How have your ideas changed as the course has progressed?
8. Refer to goal-setting exercises to evaluate whether you have started to achieve your goals.
9. Write a 4-5 page report that outlines how your thoughts and behaviours have changed throughout the course. Your report should be organized into headings, and written using full sentences and appropriate paragraph structure.Hint:It may be worthwhile to write about what ideas and behaviours you can further improve on.
11. Sample headings to use in your report:

• How I handle controversies now
• How I think differently about forming groups
• The type of group I now want to be a part of
• How I have learned to be a better group member
• How I have learned to encourage positive group attributes in other members
• Etc.