The Role Of Collaboration And Team-work In The Group Sustainability Action Project

Most qualifications treat working with other people as something that happens around the assessment. This one puts it inside. The group sustainability action project cannot be completed alone, your roles inside the group are marked, whether the group's approach to involvement was inclusive is marked, and your reflection on what teamwork taught you is worth more than any other single criterion in the component.

And yet the mark is individual, which produces the tension this lesson is really about. You are assessed on how well the group worked and on how clearly you can distinguish your own contribution from the group's. This lesson covers where the specification insists you collaborate and where it insists you work alone, how participatory roles should be allocated against strengths and growth goals, how barriers to inclusion are managed rather than avoided, how a group makes and records a decision, and what peer review actually is. You will allocate roles for a group of five, handle a dominant member and a silent one, and run a peer review that produces evidence instead of politeness.