In response to the challenge of assigning and conducting group projects, this article lays out a brief context for team projects and puts forth a positive vision of teams and leadership. The authors provide some guiding values, tools, and goals and propose a model that expands the usual conceptualization of the student-team leadership challenge. The authors also share a number of project worksheets that they have developed over the years that have helped increase the learning that occurs through group projects.
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