Understanding the Team - Student Guide to Group Work

This video forms part of an eLearning Module, The Student Guide to Group Work (https://learningcommons.yorku.ca/groupwork/) created by the Learning Commons at York University in Fall 2020. The Learning Commons unites learning and academic support units on campus to bolster student success. This guide sets out to help students understand the key benefits of effective group work and introduces them to the fundamentals of a successful group work process. This video is one of four, and focuses provides tips for fostering a strong team dynamic early on in the course of a group project with the goal of building a solid foundation for all the work and stages that follow. Students learn to appreciate typical stages a group will go through and how to navigate these stages in ways that produce a successful outcome.