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 TEAM BUILDING Essential Questions?


 * 1) What is team building?
 * 2) What type of exercises encourage teambuilding?
 * 3) How can team building exercises effect student achievement, persistence, and attitudes?
 * 4) Why is team building amongst students and teachers essential?
 * 5) How do teamwork activities build relationships between students and teachers while fostering a positive learning environment?

 //Did you know that...*// Research shows a postitive relationship between a strong sense of community and students' emotional and social development?

There are [|Seven Essential Skills]   needed for effective team building.

I. What is team building?  According to the [|National School Reform Faculty] -  Processes and experiences done collectively for the purpose of constructing and strengthening relationships between and among groups of individuals who have a common task and who need each other to accomplish it. II. What types of exercises encourage teambuilding?
 * When students work as a team they are improving their relationships, increasing their reliance on eachother, and creating a sense of cohesion which in turns creates a supportive classroom community.
 * Is the process of sharing authority and acceptance of responsibility among group members for the groups’ actions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Is the process of improving collective learning performance amongst students. A way of getting students who are unfamiliar to feel more comfortable with their peers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Is a joint effort amongst students and teachers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Team building activities should involve all students either as a whole class or broken down into groups.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Students should be grouped with students they are unfamilar with.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|Teaching Tips: Teambuilding Activities for Middle School Students]
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|Activities for Creating a Class Community: Teaching Techniques]
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|NSRF Teambuilding Activities] type in team building in the search box

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #ff00e6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">III. How can teambuilding exercises effect student achievement, persistence, and attitudes?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Article: [|"Team Building Trip takes students to their highest potential"]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|Memory-Enhancing Strategies] can improve the study and recall of information, boosting a child's academic performance.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Team building exercises will give students experience with problem-solving and positive social interaction.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Students will absorb positive energy circulating from collaborative exercises; it will strengthen a team's identity and spirit.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">It is important to present students with exercises that are achieveable in order not to discourage them from participating in future challenges.

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #ff00e6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">IV. Why is team building amongst students and teachers essential?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Teachers will help students develop thinking skills by learning to navigate social, emotional, and ethical realms.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Teachers will feel more comfortable developing lessons, activities, and thematical units that reach across the content areas to make the learning experience more engaging.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Students will recognize the importance of collaborative learning and shared knowledge.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Team building will aid in teachers and students creating a positive, supportive, and effective learning environment.

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #ff00e6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">V. How do teamwork activities build relationships between students and teachers while fostering a positive learning environment? <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;">*[|The Importance of Good Modeling]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Team building activities help students develop group spirit and a strong sense of community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Students are able to explore the concepts of individual strengths, abilities, and talents.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Students can have the opportunity to develop [|Cooperative Learning Skills].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Teachers are able to model collaborative behaviors through participation.
 * How can [|teachers foster good relationships] with students, parents, and school leaders? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">

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