A Different Approach for Pedagogical Teamwork Practices in College Classrooms

The objective of the paper is to project a different and innovative method for pedagogical teamwork practices in undergraduate college classrooms. Though, various methods are employed at present to perform teamwork trainings in certain academic environments in different forms, the one which is presented in this paper assumes a significant role in teamwork building activity as evidenced by the active responses from the students examined due to its different, effective and unique nature. A procedure for conduction and evaluation of teamwork activity in a classroom is also presented. A case study with first year undergraduate engineering students was carried out in a classroom and obtained results are interpreted and reported. A statistical analysis of the data obtained from the students is also presented in a histogram. Merits and demerits of the approach are discussed.