Effective team building exercises for the teaching staff

Working side by side, teachers know little about each other, make friends in small groups. And not only the psychological climate but also the quality of the educational process depends on cohesion!

We offer 5 effective exercises, the implementation of which will help improve communication and mutual understanding in the teaching staff

Exercise "Pros and cons"

The course of the exercise: Someone tells a story from the past that left him with a negative residue. Others have to highlight in this story only all the possible positive aspects.

Reflection: Performing Effective team building allows you to rethink negative experiences together, highlighting the positive aspects.

Exercise "Association"

Exercise: Invite participants to write associative answers to the suggested questions on the worksheets. Then ask everyone to read their options.

• The team is a building, then it¦
• If the command is a color, then it¦
• If a team is a music, then it¦
• A command is a geometric figure, then it¦
• If the team is the title of the film, then it is¦
• For me, the team is a team¦
• I see my role in our teaching team ...

Discussion:

Ask participants which answers were the most interesting and what they were surprised by.

Reflection: This exercise will help everyone to clarify the concept of the word "team" and share ideas about their place and role in the team.

Problem Solving Exercise

The course of the exercise: Ask all participants to write briefly on small sheets of paper a situation that worries them: conflict, personal experiences, issues of professional development, student performance, discipline in a particular class. Fold all the sheets into a single container.

Invite everyone to randomly pull out someone's sheet, read the problem situation, and suggest ways to solve it.

Discussion:

After the participant offers his / her solution to the problem situation, other colleagues can also join the discussion by adding their ideas about it. When there is no paper left, the exercise is complete.

Reflection:

Performing this exercise will contribute to the formation of a favorable psychological climate and the unity of community members.

Truth and False Exercise

Exercise:

Participants stand in a circle. Each, in turn, must tell about himself 2 any facts and 1 false. A false fact must be like the truth.

Discussion:

In the process of performing the exercise, colleagues should determine which information is true and which is not, arguing their opinion.

Reflection:

This exercise helps to establish informal communication, allows you to learn more about each other, and, as a result, better understand each other, as well as contributes to the formation of a favorable psychological climate in the team.

Exercise "Home"

Exercise: Unite colleagues in 2 teams and invite each of them to form a house together: within 5-7 minutes, participants must agree on who they will be in the common building - doors, walls, and maybe wallpaper, flowers, or bookshelves. Everyone makes their own choice, and the house should be full and functional.

Discussion: Ask the exercise participants whether it was easy for them to decide on their role in the "home" and why each of them made such a choice.

Reflection: Each part of the "building" is important and necessary in it and has its function, without which the house cannot be complete.