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 student won’t come untidy

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

2. Disadvantages

There 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 increase

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 ?

Class rooms are 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 deal 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

1-       Group work  - communication

2-      Strict rules     - flirting

3-      More classes  

4-      Bigger classes

5-      More parking area

Meeting Reflection

Reflection on meeting

Venue: College gender integration

Date of meeting: 14th March 2012

Present Are:

Mohamed Abbas as a chairman

Ayoob as a secretary

I’m the participant

Mohamed called the meeting to order and started it in a good way ; he introduced  the goals and agenda perfectly . He was able to manage the meeting & capable of moving from one point to another. We were discussing college gender integration .

We discussed 4 main points.  At first Mohamed pointed to the advantages of having mixed genders at the college  ; Mohammed : it has a lot of advantages ; I interrupted him and said : there are a lot of advantages and I talked about them ; moreover Ayoob added to what I said .

After that  , we moved on to the other point which is the disadvantages ; we talked abit here because in our culture it’s a bit hard for both genders to deal with each other .

We also talked about the classes (size, place, number etc). Mr. Hedley asked us some questions and we answered by giving opinions.

At last we talked about 2 points which are the communications and solutions of all above ; the solutions were good and Mr Hedley agreed with them

All of us participated in this meeting and we talked equally and in my own opinion the meeting went quite good and it was exciting.