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Much work gets done in work groups. For a class on how groups form, bring a rich, complex picture from a magazine that shows a scene, perhaps a kitchen or a living room with some details. Place it in front of the classroom. On a PowerPoint slide, write down the instructions and read them as well. Have students count off in numbers from 1 to 6. All "1s" are a group, etc. and pick one group as observers and judges, writing down what they see. Tell all the groups their task is to form a group, pick someone to draw the picture who cannot see it, and allow them ten minutes to take turns looking at the picture, bringing information back the person drawing. At the end of the time, have the students get back in their seats and have all the persons drawing go to the front of the classroom. You and your judging group then evaluate the drawings and pick a winner. Then you discuss how groups form, go the norming and conflict, emergence or working, and reinforcement and/or adjourning. Ask questions, such as was there a formal leader, and and informal leader and did the group go through the entire process. Was the groups social or more task oriented. Timothy A. Capron, Data Barata, Evri Kwong, Douig Rice, Tom Savage, Kim Zarins and Hiliry Harvey

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