Hi Steve! Thanks for your response. Groups progressively teaching groups...what a relevant workplace, critical skill beyond acquiring the proficiency of the competency itself!
A few years ago I taught a required Business Communications course (mostly grammar)from 6:00pm to 10:00pm twice per week. Can you imagine? The learning groups that we created in that class remained in formation until the end of the course (same teams). Each night, some of the in-class assignments were given to the teams as contests with points awarded for correct work. The more difficult the assignment, the more points awarded. The team with the most correct answers received the most points, then some points for the next team, etc. Sometimes to vary, only the winning team received points. We would total the points for class standings at the end of each night. It got very competitive and festive as each team tried to unseat the others. At the end of the course, we had a celebration dinner. "Contest Completion" Certificates were given to all students and the top three teams received small prizes.
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