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Help Students Be Life-Ready: Teach Collaboration and Teamwork

Inflexion February 9, 2021
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Soft skills are those characteristics that help you function as an individual (motivation, self-confidence, and flexibility) as well as within a group (teamwork, negotiation, and respect). When it comes to workplace success, these skills are key. After all, if you can’t show up on time, speak up for yourself, or get along with your peers, chances are you’re not going to have a very smooth go of it.

– Elizabeth Mulvhahill

INTRO

Provide opportunities for students to work on skills that teach collaboration and teamwork – two skillsets required for their future success in career and life.

OBJECTIVES

  • Provide opportunities for students to work on skills that teach collaboration and teamwork.
  • Provide time and space for students to reflect on and synthesize what they learn

RESOURCE LINKS

Activity

  • Provide opportunities for students to work on skills that teach collaboration and teamwork.
  • Engaging Twelve Classroom Activities from We are Teachers.
  • For each activity, be sure to provide time for students to talk and/or write about what they learned:
    • what went right
    • how they felt during the activity
    • what they would do differently next time

TIPS

  • Little Things, such as the above activity, are smaller efforts you can do tomorrow, or within the next week.
  • ACT skills and behaviors help students take ownership and successfully manage their learning. These skills include the ability to be self-directed, collaborate, set and meet goals, persist through challenges, learn to take notes effectively, and manage time well.
    • Like this activity? Check out Inflexion’s full-page ACT document for more ideas.
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