Story One
What is team spirit? Shared work consisting of planned and divided meaningful tasks, sharing information, supporting each other and team determination.
My first lesson with SMART amp was about to begin. Quite frankly, I was
more nervous than my students. To support collaboration and prevent possible
struggling with the system, I´d decided to divide students into four teams,
which turned out to be a really good move.
Our topic was “Fame” so the lesson objective was “Find something about
these celebrities”. I chose to include a literary person, a sportsperson, an
actor, and a singer. The students were to come up with their names, nationalities,
and the reason why they’d become famous. Each part was provided with some sort of
a hint. The best bit about the hints was that they could be found anywhere:
their books, maps on the walls, websites, videos, or articles. All possible
resources make a big mingle.
As there were four people in a team, I’d decided to give them a
two-minute penalty for speaking any other language than English. The trick was
that if, for example, they started speaking Czech all at once, the team
wouldn´t have been able to work and lose their precious time to work. The
students were perfect and only one of them was sent to the penalty bench.
Honestly, I was very strict as he’d only said a Czech word for a “dot” while
dictating his friend a web link (his disappointment is clearly visible in the
video).
Take a look at our workspace
Working on a few different tasks in a digital workspace forced my
students to decide on the steps to take and a way of dividing their work.
Additionally, they were checking each other´s work and giving support in case
of need. It was bliss. The final applause to the winning team was in reality
aimed at all my students. They made me a really proud teacher who had been
thoroughly enjoying his work.
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