Coaching Questions Group 1
To help your group and the teachers prepare for the tutor meetings, we would like you to answer a few questions in between sessions. The following paragraphs list the questions for each of the weeks, please write you answers directly underneath the questions.
After the kick-off - Week 1
- What are you expecting to learn during the Robots course?
- Literature Research.
- Learning all the aspects of a similar project.
- Starting from scratch to discover something new.
- What kind of coaching do you expect?
- Only interfere when we are taking a really wrong turn or get stuck.
- Remind us of the things we forget to take into account.
- What kind of coaching would you prefer?
- Some knowledge about the contents of our project.
- Cut us off from a wrong direction early.
- Ask critical questions.
- Fast response with possible questions.
- What will the coaches expect of you?
- Steady progression following the planning.
- Keeping the wiki up to date.
- Carefully prepare the 20 minute meetings.
After the first tutor meeting - Week 2
- What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
- We did not prepare enough.
- Assess our ideas more critically.
- How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
- We made a planning.
- We had an extra hour as a group to prepare for the meeting.
- What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
- Literature research.
- What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
- An extra hour together as a group.
After the second tutor meeting - Week 3
- What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
- We can now assume our autonomous robot works and exists. This helps us a lot in specifying our goal.
- How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
- The goal shifted from the robot and the greenhouse to mainly the greenhouse and its specifics.
- What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
- Divide the tasks more concretely. Learned to plan ahead better.
- What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
- An extra meeting for determining questions and problems for the next week.
After the third tutor meeting - Week 4
- What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
- How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
- What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
- What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
After the fourth tutor meeting - Week 5
- What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
- How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
- What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
- What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
After the fifth tutor meeting - Week 6
- What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
- How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
- What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
- What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
After the final presentation - Week 7
- What are the major steps of the project? Please list
- What is the most important thing you learned in this project? (e.g .about design or working in groups, etc)
- What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently?
- What was the most enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why
- What was the least enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why