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