Assign roles

Talk within your team about who is going to be responsible for doing what. Think about these following questions to get started:

• What skills are needed for your team’s project? (Examples: Knowing how to use Google Slides, knowing how to manage and lead a team well, knowing how to keep track of time and organise tasks efficiently, knowing how to research, knowing how to write or make a good argument, having good artistic or design sense, etc.)

• Are there already people within your team who have some of these strengths (or who have experience doing these things in the past)? Write a list of your names down alongside each of your strengths needed for this project.

• Assign roles according to what works best for your team. It’s okay for people to work on multiple parts of a project or work as pairs or altogether as a team sometime! Do what works for you or ask your parent or teacher for help on this if needed.

• Now that you’ve assigned roles, discuss a high-level project timeline. Think about the following:

  • If you chose to split up tasks, how long will you do your individual tasks for before getting back together as a big group?

  • How many check-ins as a big group do you want to have?

  • What time do you want to have the first draft of your project done by?

Example: Project Management Plan

Names-Assigned Roles:

• Neha: Researcher, Video Designer

• Jonathan: Video designer, Music Selector

• Valerie: Timekeeper & Team Leader

• Hong Kai: Researcher, Note Taker