1. Team Building and Motivation

2. A team comprises a group of people linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks. A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams With thanks to Wikipedia

3. Why is team building important so important in Connecting Classrooms? To engage a diversity of cultures, working practices and languages To share strengths, responsibilities and resources To overcome obstacles together

4. Why is team building important so important in Connecting Classrooms? Partners are dispersed and may feel isolated Meetings are infrequent & intensive

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8. The Development of a Team FormingStormingNorming Performing Mourning

10. Activity: exploring elements of an effective team Identify 3 qualities of an effective project team Identify 3 reasons why a team does not work well together How could a team overcome these obstacles to good team working?

11. Attention Density

12. Dream Teams

13. Balanced Teams OverallBelbin Role LeadingCo-ordinator Shaper DoingImplementer Completer/finisher ThinkingInnovator Monitor/evaluator SocialisingResource investigator Team worker

14. Orchestrating the talents…

15. How do we keep them on board?

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