5.3 Teamwork & Defense

Collaboration

AP Seminar includes team tasks. Effective teams divide work fairly, communicate, meet deadlines, and integrate members' contributions into a unified product.

Managing conflict

Teams handle disagreement through respectful discussion and compromise, keeping the shared goal in view rather than personal ego.

Oral defense

You may defend your work by answering questions about your process, choices, and reasoning. Be ready to explain and justify how you reached your conclusions.

Key terms

Collaboration

divide work fairly; communicate; meet deadlines

Integration

combine members' contributions into a unified product

Managing conflict

respectful discussion, compromise, shared goal

Oral defense

explain and justify your process and reasoning

Team success

communication and fair, integrated contribution

Try an AP-style question

In the Team Project, collaboration requires…

1. one person doing all of the work
2. members competing against each other
3. shared goals and divided responsibilities
4. no communication between members