Group Work vs Team Work Collaboration: Life / Learning Skills For 2023 (6Cs)

8 LESSONS to build SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING skills and IMPROVE GROUP WORK!

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).

• Teach fun, meaningful, and transferrable skills that students need to succeed in the 21st Century: at school, in relationships, at work, and in life!

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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!

• Perfect to reboot your class. Make it to the END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!

• Use this when students get stuck in certain roles: being aggressive, passive, or a mindless follower!

• 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.

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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. 

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

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What do your students struggle with the most?

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✅ Option 1: Trying (when they've given up)

• - Try this CHARACTER boost

✅ Option 2: Standing up for others (when things aren't fair)

• - Try this CITIZENSHIP boost

✅ Option 3: Working in groups (not the same as teamwork)

• - Try this COLLABORATION boost

✅ Option 4: Getting their point across (when upset and things matter)

• - Try this COMMUNICATION boost

✅ Option 5: Coming up with ideas (instead of copying others)

• - Try this CREATIVITY Boost

✅ Option 6: Thinking logically (and making informed decisions)

• - Try this CRITICAL THINKING boost

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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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