This document outlines an agenda for a team building workshop for physical education teachers. It includes introductions, setting expectations, discussing the purpose of team building activities, and participating in icebreakers and cooperative games. The facilitator emphasizes building relationships, challenging participants the right amount, and debriefing activities to promote thinking and learning. The overall goals are to help teachers develop students' leadership, creativity, and useful life skills through team-based physical education.
3. INTRODUCTIONS
What is your biggest struggle with your teaching experience?
Name, School and Years Teaching
Curriculum? What do you like to teach?
2 Truths and a Lie
4. Expectations
What are your expectations for today?
What are you hoping to learn?
What cooperative games and activities have you done in the past?
7. Start with why?
Why Phys Ed?
Why Team Building Activities?
What’s the Purpose
8. “I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in
the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my
daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life
miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration. I can humiliate or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be
escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.”
― Haim G. Ginott
11. Why I Love Team Building
Get to see kids emerge as leaders
Get to be creative in your “Game Design”
Get to watch creative thinking take place
Helps form a positive Class Culture - So Important!
Get to help kids develop EXTREMELY useful skills
14. Introducing an Activity
What’s the purpose? Be able to sell it
Discuss objectives, why it’s important
Be Creative! Provoke their thinking!
Check for Understanding - clarify goals and objectives
“Are you Helping or Hurting?”
17. During the Activity
Encourage and Support
Observe and Note
Give a “Time Check” occasionally if appropriate
Allow self discovery, don’t offer solutions unless necessary
“Guide on the Side” VS “Sage on the Stage”
18. After The Activity
“The Debrief”
Give Any Refinements
Ask open ended questions
Be comfortable with silence
Read body language
Try to give positive feedback - even for a “wrong” answer
20. How can team PHYSED
work together?
Feedback and Brainstorming with those at your school
Local meetings
Conferences
Online PD (Twitter, Blogs, Websites, Facebook Groups, Forums)
21. Our Best Resource is...
Eachother!
We are a team, brainstorm together, share ideas
Tools - Google Docs, Email, Voxer, Text…
Take advantage of each other’s unique experience and knowledge
Remember - We Are Family!