There are two strategies which, when combined, will ensure that your pupils become experts at working as a team.
Firstly, for pupils to truly embrace teamworking they must first understand why working as a team is so important. This can easily be achieved by showing your pupils that some things can only be accomplished with the help of others such as playing football or moving a heavy object.
Next, it is important that your colleagues plan lessons or activities that focus on developing teamworking skills. Working as a team is an essential life skill that needs to be explicitly taught – being in a team doesn’t mean the members will instinctively work as a team. Once this skill is learned, however, pupils will benefit from using it across the curriculum and indeed throughout their lives.
Fortunately, both strategies can be achieved in combination with 43 Team-building Activities for Key Stage 1 and 43 Team-building Activities for Key Stage 2 – teaching resources which have been specifically designed to help you and your colleagues develop teamworking skills among pupils.
The books contain clearly written lesson plans which will ensure that your pupils develop a range of social and physical skills (including essential movement skills: agility, balance and co-ordination) as well as stimulating their imaginations through a series of exciting problems and scenarios.
Each lesson plan begins with a story. From the mountains of the Himalayas to the stormy seas of the Pacific, the children are placed in problematic situations in which they will need to work together to find a solution.
Furthermore, the activities will develop pupils’ self-esteem and confidence whilst enabling you to address the requirement in the PE curriculum for challenging adventurous activities.
You can find more information about either of the books at these links:
43 Team-building Activities for Key Stage 1
43 Team-building Activities for Key Stage 2
And you can order from Brilliant Publications in a variety of ways, including:
• by phone on 01449 766629
• by fax on 01449 768047
• by email to orders@tradecounter.co.uk
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