HCS/588
August 11, 2014
Dr. Georgia Rothstein
Week Six Plan Review
During week six, learning team A continued their collaborative efforts in implementing and evaluating the quality improvement plan designed to assist each team member to enhance the quality of their individual assignments. This team utilized peer review, proofreading, and discussion as strategic tools to improve the quality of academic writing. This review will summarize the quality improvement process by critiquing team activities and identifying areas of team’s strength, weakness, and suggesting strategies for improvement.
Team’s Strengths This week team A was able to get team assignments starter quicker than in some previous weeks, allowing more time for communication and completion. Team A has a …show more content…
Improvement ideas include setting a leadership schedule the first week of class, and increased encouragement of team member participation. Leadership improvement would also be beneficial as the leader must support the team and rally them for obtaining the best possible outcome, they must also be careful not to bully them or speak to them as a superior but as a peer.
Online learning is complicated as it is difficult to understand true emotion and intention through a screen, requiring team members to pay special attention to communications. This was demonstrated in the week six discussions as there was no predetermined manner of how to approach the assignment, leaving everyone fending for him or herself instead of connecting as a team to find a solution. Another area of improvement includes feeling that it is acceptable to provide feedback to a peer, that it is not judging the person, or analyzing them but simply offering a different view of the situation to inspire them or notice small potential