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Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication, and Creativity
by Kris BordessaThis helpful resource is designed to offer teachers, facilitators, and parents a wide variety of activities designed to cultivate children's problem-solving skills while fostering cooperation between group members. These hands-on projects teach children to experiment with building methods, discover new uses for everyday items, try on new personas, and express themselves as they work toward a solution as a team. Team members are required to think outside the box, communicate clearly, and cooperate with each other in order to complete each task. Activities include planning a five-day trek through the mountains; building a bridge out of marshmallows, straws, and paper; and moving a group of ping-pong balls from one location to another without touching the balls directly. Children will learn not only from each other, but also from observing how other teams navigate the tasks.
Team Coaching for Organisational Development: Team, Leader, Organisation, Coach and Supervision Perspectives
by Helen ZinkWorking with teams, leading teams and being a member of a team is part of everyday working life for most of us. Through the lens of a team coaching case study, this book considers the development journey of a team and system influences over a three-year period. Readers are invited to walk in the shoes of the team, the team leader, the organisation, the team coach and the coach’s supervision and support networks, providing a unique insight into team coaching and development that goes beyond the traditional focus on the coach’s perspective. Helen Zink uses her considerable experience as a leadership and team growth coach, and leader to illustrate how team coaching interventions can be combined with other disciplines such as positive psychology, change management and strategic implementation in effective ways. The book takes a pracademic approach, showing how theories, models and best practice are applied to a real case and highlighting both the successes and challenges experienced to offer an example for all those involved in team, leadership and organisational development. With it widely recognised that collective leadership and teamwork is needed to deal with the rapidly changing environment organisations find themselves in, this is a timely and important resource for coaches, team coaches, coach supervisors, team leaders, team members, organisational development specialists, change managers, academics and consultants.
Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results
by Charlie GilkeyDISCOVER SMALL, TEAM-BASED CHANGES THAT HAVE COMPANY-WIDE RESULTS. The teams we work in amplify our individual efforts, yet we constantly struggle to accomplish what is possible. You can see all the problems in a typical weekly meeting. No planning. Missing goals. Muddled communication. We think just bringing our personal hopes and desires will be enough. It&’s not. The groups we work in need collective habits as much as individuals need better personal habits. Determining team habits for things like planning, decision-making, and prioritization produce reliability and ease for everyone. Team habits create better work and let people work better together. In Team Habits, Charlie Gilkey explains how the revolution in personal habits has an even greater potential when applied to teams. With practical exercises, a Team Habits Quiz to evaluate areas for improvement, and a guide to create a team habits roadmap, Team Habits will help you transform your group so team members can flourish and thrive. If changing the smallest habit can yield powerful results for an individual, then just imagine what it can do for your team.
Team Leadership in Community Colleges
by George R. Boggs Christine Johnson McPhail Eloy Ortiz OakleyThis edited collection is the first book to address the topic of how leaders work with teams to manage and transform community colleges. There is a need to develop better leadership teams in order to administer community colleges effectively and to improve these organizations, whether it be an individual campus, multi-college system or state-wide organization. Edited by two long-time leaders in the field, the book includes contributions from many other experienced leaders and scholars of community colleges.
Team Roles at Work
by R Meredith BelbinBelbin’s renowned Team Role theory is a familiar concept for managersand management trainers across the world. Following on from the best-selling Management Teams: Why theysucceed or fail, this second edition of Team Roles at Work provides usefulinsights into how to apply the theory in everyday work situations. This book explores the impact of Team Roles from interpersonalchemistry and managing difficult relationships, to cultivating effectiveleaders and shaping organizations. Now fully updated, this second edition has new practical examplesand summaries bringing this book up to date 17 years after itsoriginal publication. Drawing from Belbin’s own practical experienceit answers the queries that have arisen during those years. Furtherinformation accompanies the book on the Belbin website,www.belbin.com/books/books.htm including a free, downloadable,full-page summary of Team Roles with their icons, descriptions,strengths and allowable weaknesses. Team Roles at Work is the best-selling, second book written byMeredith Belbin, designed for any manager who wants to understandthe practical application of Team Role theory. R. Meredith Belbin was formerly Chairman of the Industrial TrainingResearch Unit. A founder Member of Belbin Associates, he is also VisitingProfessor and Honorary Fellow of Henley Management College. RELATED TITLESBelbin, Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail, 3e, ISBN: 978-1-85617-8075
Team Roles at Work
by Victoria Brown R. Meredith BelbinConsidered one of the first and most important ‘management gurus’, the name Belbin is synonymous with Team Role theory, a familiar concept for managers and management trainers across the world. This fully updated third edition of Team Roles at Work provides the practical application of the theory in everyday work situations. This new edition has up-to-date practical examples and summaries to reflect contemporary scenarios, and a brand-new chapter on remote team working, an issue that has gained even greater significance in recent times. The book also includes a Foreword to capture the impact of Meredith’s work in the field of management and team working. Further information accompanies the book on the Belbin website, www.belbin.com, including a summary of the nine Team Roles with their icons, descriptions, strengths, and allowable weaknesses. Team Roles at Work is the best-selling, second book written by Meredith Belbin, designed for any manager who wants to understand the practical application of Team Role theory.
Team Teachers in Japan: Beliefs, Identities, and Emotions (Routledge Research in Language Education)
by Takaaki HiratsukaThis book provides insights into the professional and personal lives of local language teachers and foreign language teachers who conduct team-taught lessons together. It does this by using the Japanese context as an illustrative example. It re-explores in this context the professional experiences and personal positionings of Japanese teachers of English (JTEs) and foreign assistant language teachers (ALTs), as well as their team-teaching practices in Japan. This edited book is innovative in that 14 original empirical studies offer a comprehensive overview of the day-to-day professional experiences and realities of these team teachers in Japan, with its focus on their cognitive, ideological, and affective components. This is a multifaceted exploration into team teachers in their gestalt—who they are to themselves and in relation to their students, colleagues, community members, and crucially to their teaching partners. This book therefore offers several empirical and practical applications for future endeavors involving team teachers and those who engage with them—including their key stakeholders, such as researchers on them, their teacher educators, local boards of education, governments, and language learners from around the world.
Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom: Collaboration for innovation in ELT (Routledge Research in Language Education)
by Akira Tajino Tim Stewart David DalskyThis book reignites discussion on the importance of collaboration and innovation in language education. The pivotal difference highlighted in this volume is the concept of team learning through collaborative relationships such as team teaching. It explores ways in which team learning happens in ELT environments and what emerges from these explorations is a more robust concept of team learning in language education. Coupled with this deeper understanding, the value of participant research is emphasised by defining the notion of ‘team’ to include all participants in the educational experience. Authors in this volume position practice ahead of theory as they struggle to make sense of the complex phenomena of language teaching and learning. The focus of this book is on the nexus between ELT theory and practice as viewed through the lens of collaboration. The volume aims to add to the current knowledge base in order to bridge the theory-practice gap regarding collaboration for innovation in language classrooms.
Team Teaching in Early Childhood: Leadership Tools for Reflective Practice
by Ellis Scope Uniit CarruyoDiscover how to support high-functioning and collaborative teacher teams in early childhood programs by developing healthy and confident team leaders. This manual covers topics of dynamic team teaching including: how to create unified teams, how to become teacher leaders, how to give and receive feedback, and how to build and assess differentiated curriculum.Uniit Carruyo has been an early childhood educator for more than twenty years and is currently the Director of Education at Ithaca Montessori School in Ithaca, New York. Carruyo received her MS Ed in Leadership from Bank Street College of Education.
Team Teaching: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy (Higher Education Ser.)
by James Rhem Kathryn M. PlankFor those considering adopting team teaching, or interested in reviewing their own practice, this book offers an over-view of this pedagogy, its challenges and rewards, and a rich range of examples in which teachers present and reflect upon their approaches. The interaction of two teachers—both the intellectual interaction involved in the design of the course, and the pedagogical interaction in the teaching of the course—creates a dynamic environment that reflects the way scholars make meaning of the world. The process naturally breaks down the teacher-centered classroom by creating a scholarly community in which teachers and students work together to understand important ideas, and where students don’t just learn content, but begin to understand how knowledge is constructed, grasp the connections between disciplines as well as their different perspectives, see greater coherence in the curriculum, and appreciate how having more than one teacher in the classroom leads naturally to dialogue and active learning.Each of the five examples in this book shares the story of a course at a different institution, and each is designed to reflect a number of different variables in team-taught courses. They represent courses in a variety of different disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts; and at a range of levels, from first-year seminars to graduate courses. They also illustrate a number of different models for instructional teams, such as faculty from the same disciplines, from related disciplines, from two very different disciplines, from different institutions, and one pairing of a faculty member and a staff member. This book provides insight into the impact of team teaching on student learning and on faculty development. It also addresses the challenges, both pedagogical an administrative, that need to be addressed for team teaching to be effective.
Team Teaching: What, Why, and How?
by Dr Francis J. BuckleyTeam teaching - a pedagogical technique that shifts the role of instruction from the individual to a team - provides students with the opportunity to take a more active role in learning. Author Francis J. Buckley explains how and why team teaching works and provides a comprehensive review of research material with practical applications. The book covers the nature, purpose, types, history, and evaluation of team teaching, as well as the resources needed and the roles of teachers, students, and administrators. The author compares this teaching approach with traditional methods seeking to strengthen its appeal to initiates. Team Teaching: What, Why, and How is the fruit of 30 years of team teaching in graduate school, religious education, sociology, psychology, and elementary school.
Team Up: El Toro & Friends (World of ¡Vamos!)
by Raúl the Third III"Fantastically fun! Kids will drink in every imaginative detail in El Toro’s wild world!" —Jeff Kinney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid seriesFrom New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third, Team Up reveals how El Toro and his fellow wrestlers become master luchadores in an action-packed, graphic-novel-style El Toro & Friends paper-over-board reader from the Eisner-nominated World of ¡Vamos!El Toro and friends make a great team! But that wasn't always the case.A long time ago, they went to Ricky Ratón's School of Lucha, learning everything from strength training to patience. When it comes time for one final test, El Toro and friends have to decide whether working alone is the best way to go or if teaming up might make things easier... and more fun!Pairing Spanish phrases with plenty of humor, this early reader graphic novel is essential for those who want an action-packed story and lots of laughs.
Team of Teams Coaching: Using a Teaming Approach to Increase Business Impact
by Peter Hawkins Dr Catherine CarrFor an organization to be successful in the mid-21st century, it is important for all of its teams to be more than the sum of their parts and the organization's team of teams to be more than the sum of the teams. The ability to team with all stakeholders in a quick and agile manner can be a defining difference from other organizations.Written by the leading global thought leaders on teaming and systemic team coaching, Teams of Teams Coaching provides practical guidance on developing an organizational strategy and culture that delivers critical advantages. It covers the need for team of teams coaching, the benefits of this approach and how to build and implement a team of teams coaching strategy. There is also guidance on how to develop a teaming culture in the organization, building internal team coaching capacity and what to consider when exploring external coaching support.Full of global research of best practice from over seventy organizations from different sectors, as well as the authors' combined seventy years of working with coaching organizations and the team of teams, this book provides a clear map of the process to become an effective team of teams. This evidence-based guide contains methods and tools that leaders, coaches and consultants can immediately use to achieve improved performance and gain competitive advantage.
Team-Based Collaboration in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: A Review Of The Literature (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Alan Bain Catherine NewellThis book examines what collaboration means in practice, and the factors that enable effective team collaboration for learning and teaching in higher education. It explains how academics can work more collaboratively, and how universities can organise and govern themselves by means of collaboration. The book brings together current research and commentaries on collaboration in higher education to provide important guidance derived from a synthesis and evaluation of the existing empirical research and commentaries in the field.The book will benefit all readers who are interested in making their own teams and higher education organisations more collaborative. It will help them plan collaborative innovations in their organisations, identify priorities for professional capacity building, and design collaborative organisational structures.
Team-Based Learning for Health Professions Education: A Guide to Using Small Groups for Improving Learning
by Larry K. Michaelsen Dean X. Parmelee Ruth E. Levine Kathryn K. McMahonEducation in the health professions is placing greater emphasis on “active” learning–learning that requires applying knowledge to authentic problems; and that teaches students to engage in the kind of collaboration that is expected in today’s clinical practice. Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a strategy that accomplishes these goals. It transforms passive, lecture-based coursework into an environment that promotes more self-directed learning and teamwork, and makes the classroom come “alive.”This book is an introduction to TBL for health profession educators. It outlines the theory, structure, and process of TBL, explains how TBL promotes problem solving and critical thinking skills, aligns with the goals of science and health courses, improves knowledge retention and application, and develops students as professional practitioners. The book provides readers with models and guidance on everything they need to know about team formation and maintenance; peer feedback and evaluation processes, and facilitation; and includes a directory of tools and resources.The book includes chapters in which instructors describe how they apply TBL in their courses. The examples range across undergraduate science courses, basic and clinical sciences courses in medical, sports medicine and nursing education, residencies, and graduate nursing programs. The book concludes with a review and critique of the current scholarship on TBL in the health professions, and charts the needs for future research.
Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Group Work that Works to Generate Critical Thinking and Engagement
by Edited by Michael Sweet and Larry K. MichaelsenTeam-Based Learning (TBL) is a unique, powerful, and proven form of small-group learning that is being increasingly adopted in higher education. Teachers who use TBL report high levels of engagement, critical thinking, and retention among their students. TBL has been used successfully in both small and large classes, in computer-supported and online classes; and because it is group work that works, it has been implemented in nearly every discipline and in countries around the world.This book introduces the elements of TBL and how to apply them in the social sciences and humanities. It describes the four essential elements of TBL – readiness assurance, design of application exercises, permanent teams, peer evaluation – and pays particular attention to the specification of learning outcomes, which can be a unique challenge in these fields.The core of the book consists of examples of how TBL has been incorporated into the cultures of disciplines as varied as economics, education, literature, politics, psychology, and theatre. The authors explain why they felt a need to change how they taught and why they chose TBL. Furthermore, each chapter provides examples of the assignments and exercises they use to help their students achieve the specific learning outcomes of their courses.At a time of increasing course sizes, and emphasis on learning outcomes, TBL offers the means to meet such demands while connecting students to their coursework, and stimulating their intellectual engagement.
Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching
by Larry K. Michaelsen L. Dee Fink Arletta Bauman KnightThis book describes team-based learning (TBL), an unusually powerful and versatile teaching strategy that enables teachers to take small group learning to a whole new level of effectiveness. It is the only pedagogical use of small groups that is based on a recognition of the critical difference between "groups" and "teams", and intentionally employs specific procedures to transform newly-formed groups into high performance learning teams.This book is a complete guide to implementing TBL in a way that will promote the deep learning all teachers strive for. This is a teaching strategy that promotes critical thinking, collaboration, mastery of discipline knowledge, and the ability to apply it.Part I covers the basics, beginning with an analysis of the relative merits and limitations of small groups and teams. It then sets out the processes, with much practical advice, for transforming small groups into cohesive teams, for creating effective assignments and thinking through the implications of team-based learning.In Part II teachers from disciplines as varied as accounting, biology, business, ecology, chemistry, health education and law describe their use of team-based learning. They also demonstrate how this teaching strategy can be applied equally effectively in environments such as large classes, mixed traditional and on-line classes, and with highly diverse student populations.Part III offers a synopsis of the major lessons to be learned from the experiences of the teachers who have used TBL, as described in Part II. For teachers contemplating the use of TBL, this section provides answers to key questions, e.g., whether to use team-based learning, what it takes to make it work effectively, and what benefits one can expect from it–for the teacher as well as for the learners.The appendices answer frequently asked questions, include useful forms and exercises, and offer advice on peer evaluations and grading. A related Web site that allows readers to “continue the conversation,” view video material, access indexed descriptions of applications in various disciplines and post questions further enriches the book. The editors’ claim that team-based instruction can transform the quality of student learning is fully supported by the empirical evidence and examples they present. An important book for all teachers in higher education.
Team-Mind und Teamleistung: Teamarbeit zwischen Managementmärchen und Arbeitswirklichkeit
by Joachim Hasebrook Benedikt Hackl Sibyll RoddeWie erfolgreich eine Organisation ist, wird dadurch bestimmt, wie gut die Mitarbeitenden in ihr zusammenarbeiten. Krisenzeiten machen das besonders deutlich und stellen zugleich besondere Anforderungen an die Zusammenarbeit: Krisenstäbe werden gebildet, Teammitglieder arbeiten plötzlich getrennt und virtuell, Unsicherheit durch psychische Belastungen und Cyberattacken wächst. Jenseits von Binsenwahrheiten und simplen Erfolgsrezepten gibt dieses Managementbuch psychologisch und betriebswirtschaftlich fundiert Antworten, wie erfolgreiche Teamarbeit auch in Krisenzeiten funktioniert. Sie erfahren, wie Sie Teamleistungen fördern und was Sie von Hochleistungsteams lernen können. Mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis und in Interviews führender Expertinnen und Experten aus Industrie, Wissenschaft, Medizin, Militär und Spitzensport wird leicht verständlich und unterhaltsam erläutert, wie man Trendsetter für bessere Teamleistung wird. Das Buch ist von einem Organisationspsychologen, einem Betriebswirt und einer klinischen Psychologin verfasst und daher interdisziplinär und breit anwendbar angelegt. Es beruht auf über 15 Jahren Praxis- und Forschungserfahrung sowie topaktuellen Erkenntnissen der Sozial-, Arbeits- und Neuropsychologie. Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die in Entscheidungsgremien, Entwicklungs- und Produktionsteams oder in der Teamleitung arbeiten. Es ist auch wertvoll für Teamtrainer, Coaches, Berater sowie Designer und Architekten, die Teamarbeitsplätze entwickeln.
TeamWork: Setting the Standard for Collaborative Teaching, Grades 5-9
by Monique Wild Amanda Mayeaux Kathryn EdmondsTeamWork: Setting the Standard for Collaborative Teaching, Grades 5–9is full of captivating stories and insightful conversations. The teamers provide an honest and richly detailed explanation of collaborative teaching in action. They deliver the straight scoop on teaming, offering insights on these and other key topics: How to shape a shared purpose for learning by mining the talents of students and colleagues How to build strong partnerships with parents, principals, and other key people who influence the lives of young adolescents How to deepen curriculum integration by cutting the fluff.This insider' s guide to teaming reveals the conversations, the conflicts, and the collegial sharing that enables teachers to collaborate so that every member of the team can meet the highest standards of professional practice. For new teachers and seasoned veterans alike, TeamWork provides a powerful foundation for achievement.
Teams Unleashed: How to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work Teams
by Phillip Sandahl Alexis PhillipsFROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER, CO-ACTIVE COACHINGTeams Unleashed provides a map and compass for engaged, sustainable, and improved team performance. This practical approach uses the everyday language of teams to highlight what's working, and uncover what's not, and gives teams the tools to to incorporate new practices that build team effectiveness. This is an approach proven in the real world of teams since 2005 and used by thousands of teams worldwide.The steps outlined are based on the fundamentals of coaching - a powerful, repeatable process to support and empower change that makes a difference. Teams Unleashed introduces the five core competencies for working effectively with teams, describes the essential team coaching skills and provides exercises and activities to generate the important conversations that lead to new understanding and new team norms.This is a book for those who work with and lead teams: team and executive coaches, internal HR, OD and L&D professionals, and team leaders. This is an approach that gives teams a way to get clear "We are here"; the tools to design "Where we go from here"; and the structure and accountability to stay on track for team success.
Teams Unleashed: How to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work Teams
by Phillip Sandahl Alexis PhillipsFROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER, Co-Active Coaching, Fourth Edition: The proven framework for transformative conversations at work and in life Teams Unleashed provides a map and compass for engaged, sustainable, and improved team performance. This practical approach uses the everyday language of teams to highlight what's working, and uncover what's not, and gives teams the tools to to incorporate new practices that build team effectiveness. This is an approach proven in the real world of teams since 2005 and used by thousands of teams worldwide. The steps outlined are based on the fundamentals of coaching-a powerful, repeatable process to support and empower change that makes a difference. Teams Unleashed introduces the five core competencies for working effectively with teams, describes the essential team coaching skills and provides exercises and activities to generate the important conversations that lead to new understanding and new team norms. This is a book for those who work with and lead teams: team and executive coaches, internal HR, OD and L&D professionals, and team leaders. This is an approach that gives teams a way to get clear "We are here"; the tools to design "Where we go from here"; and the structure and accountability to stay on track for team success.
Teams Unleashed: How to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work Teams
by Phillip Sandahl Alexis PhillipsTeams Unleashed provides a systematic approach for coaching teams to sustainable high performance in organizations. The book describes the essential competencies and specific skills for coaching teams and provides exercises and activities for implementing them. Readers will find a research-based model and method with a carefully documented track record reinforced with practical tools to create an effective, collaborative team culture, transform team performance and reliably deliver results.(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Teams Work Together (Reach Into Phonics Ser.)
by Deborah J. Short Joanna Korba Will JimmersonNIMAC-sourced textbook
Teamwork (Sweet Valley Twins #27)
by Jamie Suzanne Francine PascalDetermined to earn the bus fare needed to visit their great-aunt, the Wakefield twin take up dog-sitting and are soon torn between reporting an abused dog and remaining silent -- profitably.
Teamwork Plain and Simple: 5 Key Ingredients to Team Success in Schools
by Michael HarphamWhat are the necessary ingredients which make a team of staff in schools successful? How can teamwork in schools be improved? In what ways does effective teamwork in schools result in more efficiency, more enjoyment, and more success? Teamwork Plain and Simple provides the answers to these questions, offering a fresh perspective on how teachers and school leaders can implement effective teamwork in schools. Rooted in three decades of teaching and school leadership experience and drawing on his ground-breaking research through this essential text, Dr Michael Harpham identifies the five key ingredients that support effective teamwork in schools and offers over 40 situation-driven strategies to help you lead and develop your team. The chapters cover: Expectations of working and progressing as a team Team communication and interaction Team behaviours and building relationships Organisational infrastructure and team functionality Capacity and growing your team Including a user-friendly audit to evaluate the efficacy of your team, as well as useful tips and practical case studies, this guide is a crucial read for any teacher or school leader who wishes to improve their organisation’s teamwork.