Full Description
This book equips instructors in higher education with tools and techniques to foster meaningful and inclusive student engagement through teamwork. Grounded in research and refined through decades of classroom experience, Ruth Sessler Bernstein, Amy Johnson, and Regan Harwell Schaffer provide adaptable, easy-to-implement strategies that support content mastery, high performance and the development of interpersonal and cultural competence.
Actionable steps guide instructors in forming strong teams, handling conflict, increasing self-awareness and helping shape students' characters, worldview and professional readiness. The authors present structured interaction practices that allow all students to contribute meaningfully and grow through feedback and reflection. They emphasize the value of inclusive and intentionally structured practices that enable student teams to become spaces for growth, empathy and the development of essential leadership skills for today's diverse, dynamic and interconnected world.
An essential resource for educators and instructors across a variety of disciplines, this book is also go-to reading material for students and scholars in education, teaching methods and business and management.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Why high-performance inclusive teams matter
in higher education
2 From diversity to inclusion: The challenges to successful
high-performance inclusive student teams
3 The Framework in action: A practice-based, evidence-
informed framework for leveraging inclusion
4 Designing teams with purpose: Establishing teaching goals
for building inclusive team interactions
5 Structuring for belonging: Engaging together as a team by
creating mission and values
6 Tools for inclusive practice: Engaging together as a team by
structuring intentional inclusive practices
7 Reflection, feedback, and accountability: Engaging together
as a team by evaluating self and team behaviors
8 Learning through discomfort: Engaging together as a team by
adapting behaviors
9 Flexibility with integrity: Advanced strategies for inclusive
high-performance student teams
10 Conclusion: Empowering high-performance inclusive teams
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