Pedagocial team contract
Each team will work out their own “pedagocial team contract”. The
purpose is to create a mutual commitment and responsibility for a good
learning outcome in the teams and in the communication with teachers and
companies/ organizations to be visited in the course. The outcome of a
course is always depending on the teachers´ and the students´
motivation, knowledge, communication and learning. Characteristic for a
good learning situation is an “open dialogue”. In an open learning
dialogue and “climate” teachers and students communicate, are flexible
and together make changes if necessary. The course web-site is one more
important way of information and communication.
Research and practice have shown the importance of differences in the
personalities and knowledge in teams especially in working with
creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial activities. The student teams
should therefore at the start of a long-term team-work try to know each
others´ uniqueness, values and previous knowledge. From this analisys
it is easier to find out the common platform and use the different
mind-sets as a strength for the team as a whole. Differences could also
be in the individual team members´ motivation and expectations on each
other. How to get effective team meetings, time schedules, deadlines and
learning support to each other etc. is also a result of the
communication and commitments in the teams.
It is easy to find the same view in the life outside of the
universities, for examples in the daily work in a company, in doing
business with customers or in sport team activities. Just imagine what
will happen in an important development project in a company if only
half of the team will show up at an agreed meeting or if the football
team just have half of the team at the start of a match without
communicating with the project manager, the coach and/or the team.
Ethical commitments and mutual responsibility are prerequisites for
every successful company, organization and team today.