Meeting activity

Meeting Activity

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.

Agenda:

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

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

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 laterAbdulla 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); and what would happen later on with more students in each class?
Class rooms 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

1-       Group work  - communication

2-      Strict rules     - flirting

3-      More classes 

4-      Bigger classes

5-      More parking area

Reflection

I am Mohammed Abbas; I was responsible for this meeting. The meeting was about the possibility of integrating genders in the college. I expect that I was able to lead the meeting in a good way.

However, at this meeting we talked about the four key points. The points are : advantages and disadvantages, classes and solutions. At first we talked about the advantages of the merger, and both Abdullah and Ayoob said many of the ideas. For example, absenteeism would be reduced. In the second point we talked about the negative aspects of integration of students. The most important point is that the students will be less because of modesty. Intervention of Mr. Hedley who expressed his opinion, and asked a few questions that were answered by Ayoob and Abdullah. After that we talked about classes. In the end, we have some solutions to the problems that we faced in the meeting and that lie ahead if we apply the gender integration in the colleges. As in charge of this meeting, I see that everyone has to participate in this meeting. In general the meeting was excellent.