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Assignments
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Group Assignment
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Group Assignment: Practicing Citizenship Project Description For the Unit IV Group Project you will explore a contemporary issue related to citizenship in order to see how some Unit themes and concepts function in today’s world. This collaborative project challenges you in democratic decision-making and should strengthen your competency in group interaction. You will be expected to conduct research and to create an effective peer teaching activity in order to share information and insights about your topic and its relationship to citizenship with your NCC colleagues. In addition, this project gives you an opportunity to work within and become more familiar with an area of study that relates directly to a concentration or major you might pursue as an upper division student (see pp. 3-4 for descriptions of group project topic areas). In Units I, II and III, you worked in study groups to complete presentations and projects, and the Unit IV project asks you to build on those skills. What is different in this course, however, is that you will be presented with the new challenge of working in a larger group of about twenty members to create a project with the following required components: · A one hour peer teaching activity that educates other members of the NCC first-year cohort about a contemporary citizenship issue involving concepts and themes explored in Unit IV. The “jigsaw” format for the peer teaching activity will require the group to divide into four or five member teams to conduct the teaching activity. The design of the peer teaching activity design should demonstrate awareness and creative use of effective approaches to education, and the content should reflect substantial relevant library and online research. In keeping with NCC’s commitment to experiential learning, an experiential research component is also required (for example, research involving field work). · Written documentation describing the project’s goals and rationale, explaining choices the group has made, and supplying evidence and sources used in its development. · A written record that documents and evaluates the processes by which the group came to consensus on a topic and developed the required project components. This will include weekly individual contributions to a group blog as well as a final summary and analysis of group process issues. These materials should reflect the group’s learning about the challenges and opportunities associated with work in larger and more complex collaborative bodies, addressing matters of conflict transformation/resolution, division of labor, barriers to communication, respecting minority viewpoints, etc.
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