Meeting Reflection

Problem: College gender integration

Venue: W007

Date: Wednesday 7th March

Present:

Mohamed Abbas, Chairman

Ayoob, Secretary

Abdulla Eissa, Participant

Mohamed opened the meeting at 10.30 am, and then he called the agenda of the meeting.  Also he managed the meeting by dividing the time and the points that we discussed. Mohamed mentioned advantages of gender integration in the college. Mohamed talked about the competition will increase between students. I said there is competition between all colleges. Abdulla cleared the point for me.  Abdulla said some of the points of this problem, before Mohamed moved to another point; I added some of the advantages.

The second point was disadvantages; the most important point is our culture with mixed gender. It will be hard to have both genders in the same class. Also I added parking space; now the students didn’t have enough parking.

The third point we had to talk about was classes. Mohamed said the classes are small and he didn’t think that will be a good idea to have gender integration with this space.

In the end we talked about communication; how will it be between them? And Mohamed moved to the solutions of this problem. One of the solutions that I said, the teacher must do more group activities. 

The meeting was good and everyone gave his opinion of this problem. Also we will do another meeting to see if we have any points we want to add.

Meeting activity

Meeting activity

Problem: College Gender Integration

Date of meeting: 7th March 2011
Time of meeting: 10:10
Venue: W007
Group members:
Chair: Mohamed Abbas
Minute taker: Ayoob
Participant: Abdulla Eissa

Venue preparation:

Grouping of chairs round tables

Agenda:

v  Advantages

v  Disadvantages

v  Classes – are some too small for mixed classes?

v  Communication: will this be difficult between males & females?

v  Solution



The chairman Mohamed opened the meeting at 10:25

1. Advantages.

Mohamed: Advantages

Hedley waited for our response to that word
Abdulla said that the percentage of late and absentees will become less

Ayoob: Abdulla agreed and students won’t come untidy

Hedley smiled and said that’s true all of them will wear nice clothes

2. Disadvantages

 are some disadvantages; Mohamed said that group work won’t work!

Ayoob: yes but we can do more group work and this was a solution

Mohamed replied let’s focus on the disadvantages and we’ll talk about the solution later

Abdulla mentioned that the flirting percentage will rise up

Hedley suggested to put some strict rules which is in our solution already

 3. Classes

Classes seems to be small said the chairman!

Hedley said how?

We said that there are not enough classes (exam halls); what would happen later on with more students in each class?

Classrooms are a bit too small for us now.

4. Communications

Mohammed made this point and said communication is something important but with mixed classes it will be hard to manage

Ayoob said students are going to be shy and Abdulla agreed because it’s obvious each gender is not used to dealing with the other gender and that’s the big deal.

5. Solutions

As Ayoob mentioned group work will help in solving the problem and here are some things he said

In conclusion we thought that:

1-       Group work  - communications

2-      Strict rules     - flirting

3-      More classes 

4-      Bigger classrooms

5-      More parking area

Meeting activities

Agenda:

Problem: College gender integration

Date of meeting: 14th March 2012
Time of meeting:
Venue: W007
Group members:
Chair: Mohamed Al Obaidly.
Secretary: Ayoob Al Hammadi.
Participant: Abdulla Eissa.

v  Advantages

·         There will be some sort of competing between students

·         The absentee rate will decrease 

·         Public facilities are already available

v  Disadvantages

·         Both genders won’t concentrate in class

·         The percentage of flirting will increase

·         There will be no parking

·         There are not enough teachers in some sections

v  Classes – are some too small for mixed classes?

·         There is a shortage of exam halls

v  Communication: will this be difficult between males &  females

·         Some of them will be too shy to talk with others

·         The group work won’t work properly

v  Solution

·         There must be some strict rules

·         New building with lots of classes and parking should be provided

·         The group work should contain both genders

·         More teachers should be hired