Each team must develop its own structure, goals, rules, leadership and criteria for success. Each team sets its own schedule for team meetings and establishes the balance of team meeting time used for planning, analysis, and reflection. Team meetings are not used primarily for instruction. Outside of these meetings, students do some reading and writing, but the APT experience is primarily about applying ideas, theories, models, skills and practices in an intentional and deliberate way. This is about doing, but is also about learning and inventing.
All students have to participate in and support all activities of their team.
They do not have to be interchangeable, but do have to stretch themselves to take on roles and tasks that are unfamiliar or even uncomfortable. Frequently, this means that all team members have to do a combination of reading, some writing, and some fieldwork each semester. Representation of ICAR and the field of CAR . While operating in field settings, students are expected to behave in ways that enhance the reputation of our institution and the field. Actions not consistent with agreed-upon criteria can result in a student being removed from the field aspects of the project and suffering a reduction in course grade.