High-Powered Teams: Getting the Most Out of Your Student Team Helps Students Master Classroom Team Skills

High-Powered Teams is a step-by-step process in cooperative learning that guides students in organizing, working in, and managing their classroom team projects. The guide includes examples, templates, case studies, and exercises that teach key concepts, techniques, and processes for managing student teams. An instructor's manual that includes lesson plans and other materials is available in downloadable format at no charge.

Woodstock, IL (PRWEB) May 9, 2007 -- Merida Johns, PhD, shows college students how to master the skills for productive teamwork with the publication of High-Powered Teams: Getting the Most Out of Your Student Team.

At the urging of her colleagues and former students, Dr. Johns wrote High-Powered Teams to share her 20-year experience in effectively using student teams as an instructional method.

High-Powered Teams is a step-by-step process that guides students in organizing, working in, and managing their classroom team projects. The guide includes examples, templates, case studies, and exercises that teach key concepts, techniques, and processes for managing student teams. An instructor's manual that includes lesson plans and other materials is available in downloadable format at no charge.

"As a college student, I participated in many student teams, but the experience was seldom a productive one," says Dr. Johns. "After making the transition from college student to college professor, I was determined that the positive outcomes of cooperative learning and teamwork be achieved by my students." High-Powered Teams is the result of Dr. Johns work with hundreds of student teams over the past 20 years.

High-Powered Teams: A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Student Team is available for purchase at http://www.lulu.com/mljohnsphd . The guide will be available through all major online booksellers and can be ordered by college bookstores through their regular sources by the end of June.

Link to Publication: http://www.lulu.com/mljohnsphd

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Merida Johns, PhD, has over 30 years experience in health information systems as a manager, educator, and consultant. She was a tenured faculty member at The Ohio State University and The University of Alabama at Birmingham and has taught in health informatics, business, and health services administration programs. She was the director of the Master's in Health Informatics Program at the University of Alabama Birmingham and the Director of the Master's in Information Systems Management Program, School of Business, Loyola University Chicago. She is currently Visiting Professor, The College of St. Scholastica, Graduate Program in Health Information Management. Dr. Johns had held academic appointments in departments of business, computer science, medicine, and allied health.

MEDIA CONTACT:    

Merida Johns,

Merida @ mljohnsphd.com

http://www.MLJohnsPhd.com

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