Group Work vs Team Work Collaboration - Back to School Learning Skills

Great Back to School activity to set up classroom expectations for GROUP WORK.

• 8 lessons to help build Social-Emotional Learning skills and help students improve group work.

• Teach fun, meaningful, and transferrable skills that students need to succeed in the 21st Century!

Collaboration and Teamwork are NOT the same things!

• Your students may be working worked in groups but that doesn’t mean they’re working well.

• Students need to recognize there are different teamwork styles (collaboration, coordination, and cooperation).

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• Section A. Word Jumbles
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• Section B. Teamwork Styles
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• Section C. Video + D. Consolidation
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Use the life-long tool over and over again!

• Use it again during Back to School season with your new class to set the tone for a year of learning!

• Teach important lessons if you ever need to fill a period.

• Use this right before you start a group project to get more out of your students.

• Leave the detailed lesson plans for a substitute teacher to use.

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• Includes examples of collaboration to help your students see the difference between just co-operating, or coordinating others, and real collaboration.

• The teamwork styles handout is DIFFERENTIATED for different abilities in your class.

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Collaboration is about working together to produce or create something. Teamwork is a bigger umbrella term that includes 3 different styles: collaboration, cooperation, and coordination. 

Teamwork could be

1. COLLABORATION

• A group of students is working on an assignment.
• They’re all contributing to the discussion as equals.
• Finally, they have a collective aha moment and figure out something they didn’t realize before.

2. CO-OPERATION

• A group of students is working on homework questions together.
• They’re sharing information with each other.
• But, they each are working on their own separate goals (get their work done.) 

3. CO-ORDINATION

• A group of students is working on questions
• The kids who are stronger tell the kids who are struggling what to do or write down on the assignment page. 
• Someone takes on more of a leadership role and tells others what to do.

Build a growth mindset in your students. Teach them strategies to get better at collaborating. 

✅ The NO PREP slideshow lesson teaches the concepts.

✅ You can EDIT THE FILES to fit your classroom needs.

✅ The slideshow lesson is comprehensive and teaches the concepts:

• DISTANCE LEARNING, BLENDED LEARNING or 1:1 LEARNING in Google Classroom
• IN-PERSON LEARNING in your real classroom

..... Hey, this is cool - check it out! ⭐ BACK to SCHOOL lessons to kick start a year of learning!

• Try this SURVEY so your students can see what kind of mindset they have.

• Do these FUN CLASSROOM DEBATES - does EQUAL mean FAIR?

• Watch these VIDEOS and figure out if teamwork is the same as collaboration. (Spoiler: not always.)

• Play these COMMUNICATION GAMES to notice how communication breaks down.

• Try the DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT challenge and see what happens!

• This one is MY FAVORITE. Students have a lot of fun with the group activity in Section A. The viral video in Section D is shocking... but are we really surprised at this point?

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✅ SOCIAL and EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) in a world of Covid, Systemic Racism, and Constant Change...

• Teach students how to PIVOT when faced with obstacles and opportunities.

• BUILD character: develop resilience during uncertain times.

• EMPOWER classroom citizenship: actively participate in our school, local and global community to make the world a better place.

• THINK critically instead of reacting to fear, viral videos, or fake news.

• EVALUATE systemic discrimination in a real-world case study: how might a system impose unfair burdens on a group of people?

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You can also read more about Collaboration Skills Lesson Plans on our website.

SINGLE PDF update - v2022-07-19

The individual products in this bundle now have a Single PDF to print (with a File Table of Contents and all handouts)

• I added a digital learning version (Easel by TpT)
• I added Microsoft versions for all files
• NO CHANGES to teaching content in sections A, B, or C.
• Updated teaching content in section D. (Updated the Handout - Student Self-Evaluation)

Other changes

• Files are now packaged by section (A. Word Jumble, B. Teamwork Styles, C/D Video + Consolidation) instead of splitting Google Drive folders by use (i.e. Print and Teach, Edit the documents, Google Classroom)
• Simplified file names using descriptive words (handout, slideshow).
• Minor changes to formatting / layout
• Combined all handouts into a single PDF to print (for individual products)
• Removed Google Slides versions of handouts (and replaced with Easel by TpT)

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